IMPORTANT for Windows XP or 2003 Users
By babshish
@babshish (1387)
India
July 8, 2009 12:26pm CST
Microsoft has released a rare warning for "zero-day" vulnerability in an ActiveX Control running on Windows XP or Server 2003 that is being exploited by hackers. The company doesn't have the patch ready to fix the issue yet. but because of vulnerability is being actively exploited, Microsoft is alerting customers and providing a workaround.
To implement this workaround that disables the Microsoft Video ActiveX Control automatically on a computer running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 click the link " http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972890" and click FIX THIS PROBLEM link under enable workaround.
Note :- This is important in terms of security for all the users who are seeing online videos. I would suggest all of you to atleast go to the link and read more details about the same.
Note :- This is important in terms of security for all the users who are seeing online videos. I would suggest all of you to atleast go to the link and read more details about the same.1 person likes this
2 responses
@checkmail (2039)
• India
9 Jul 09
Hello babshish this is checkmail and want to know is it for real, because sometime ago only it had started to cancel the genuine windows microsoft software, something vga card related.My pc was unable to start it was not getting authenticated by Microsoft, so I had it repaired by an specialist in computers.And now what is this exact warning about, all our videos will stop running.Is it really necessary measure to be taken, or just precautionary.
Anyways thanks for the information about this warning and also send some detailed info about it.
Have a nice day.GoodLuck.
@kalrocking (413)
• India
8 Jul 09
great news now we can get more news on this issue and i will really try to fix this issue with my operating system as this will help me lots for protecting my operating system.
anyways i think microsoft will solve this problem as fast as possible because they got powerful engineers.
@babshish (1387)
• India
8 Jul 09
Microsoft will surely sort this out, currently they have not got time to packaged this workaround, thats why they have released it this way, sooner or later this fix will come in the patch itself. I hope whoever is using XP or 2003 OS should check this out and be safe before any issues.
