New Internet Explorer Flaws Ranked 'Extremely Critical'

Today (Jan 10th) is the big day for the Microsoft Security Bulletins for January. The preliminary word is that at least one of the January Security Bulletins will be rated 'Critical' by Microsoft. Hopefully that 'Critical' bulletin will address the 'Extremely Critical' flaw in Internet Explorer as identified by Secunia. The reason Secunia bumped it to 'Extremely Critical' is that there is working exploit code available which would allow an attacker to exploit systems including Windows XP with Service Pack 2 applied. Secunia is recommending that users disable ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer or use another Web browser, such as Firefox, at least until Microsoft patches these flaws.
To disable Active X controls in Internet Explorer go to Tools at the top of a browser window & click on it.
Then click on Internet Options & then on the Security tab.
From there you can click 'disable' for Active X controls.
Then click OK & close all IE windows before continuing.
Be sure to add this page to your favorites prior to doing that.