• Get ready to install the out-of-band LNK patch coming on Monday

    Posted on July 31, 2010 at 13:06 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    I never, ever, ever recommend that you install an unproven patch.

    Except this time.

    On Monday, Microsoft will release an out-of-band patch that fixes the link file icon rendering 0day hole I talked about two weeks ago. Brian Krebs has a good synopsis here.

    Even though it may break things, MS has put this patch through a lot of tests. Chances are good it won’t break anything important. And the bad guys are using the exploit right now.

    Best to apply this patch – and this patch only – on Monday morning.

    Windows Patches/Security
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