We are pleased to announce that today we are releasing the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (RC).
For a more detailed description of our approach in building and shipping the IE9 RC, you should read our engineering team’s post on the IE Blog. The IE9 RC is feature complete and is available for download now at www.beautyoftheweb.com.
Today we released MS10-018 out-of-band due to increases in attacks against Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 using the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 981374. I want to reiterate that Internet Explorer 8 is not affected by this issue so customers using this version are not affected by these attacks and we continue to encourage customers to upgrade to the newer version because it provides more security and protection.
Link – http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/03/30/security-bulletin-ms10-018-released.aspx
Microsoft has started dropping broad hints that an emergency patch for Internet Explorer will be released very soon to counter targeted attacks and the publication of exploit code for a “browse and you’re owned†vulnerability in its flagship Web browser.
The out-of-band update will be released once the company is satisfied that it has been properly tested against all affected versions of Windows. This could happen as early as this weekend.
