Today, March 30th, a vulnerability effecting IE 6, IE 6 SP1, and IE 7, that could allow hackers to remotely execute arbitrary code, will be fixed via an out-of-sequence Windows Update. Microsoft says that the new patch will be released around 10 AM PDT. This vulnerability has been seen, in the wild, during the month of March 2010 and Microsoft deems this a “High Priority” update.
Even if you have upgraded from IE 6, and 7 to Internet Explorer 8, you should still get this update. The update will also address several other privately reported issues, some of which do effect IE 8.
So make sure that you have Automatic Updates turned on, or get the update manually by going to www.update.microsoft.com ,using Internet Explorer, and manually get the new patches.
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