Is this alert worth concern?

[herosrest]

"While we will release a fix for this variation shortly, users can help protect against this newly reported issue by changing their IE Internet security zone settings to prompt them before running ActiveX components," the company said in a statement. More information can be found in the advisory on Microsoft's Web site.


http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/sec...9116876,00.htm

Ran into it via BBC.

[cdroman]

Originally posted by herosrest
"While we will release a fix for this variation shortly, users can help protect against this newly reported issue by changing their IE Internet security zone settings to prompt them before running ActiveX components," the company said in a statement. More information can be found in the advisory on Microsoft's Web site.


http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/sec...9116876,00.htm

Ran into it via BBC.

I don't need to worry about it running proxo, as neither the ad or pop-up that installs the trojan will run on my system.

[ukulele]

The problem with that is when you do get the pop ups that prompt you if you want to run an active x script, it doesn't say what the script is. Lot's of sites use active x scripting, even sysopt, so it becomes a nuisance pop up.