Posted in ISC on June 15th, 2010 by ISC Handler
Reader Jack showed us notifications that the vulnerability for Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center is being exploited in the wild. More information for this vulnerability at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2219475.mspx.
To fix this problem, please visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2219475and look for the Enable this fix image. It will download a MSI that unregisters the HCPprotocol as a workaround, because there is currently no patch available.
-- Manuel Humberto Santander Pelez | http://twitter.com/manuelsantander | http://manuel.santander.name | msantand at isc dot sans dot org
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.org Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
To fix this problem, please visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2219475and look for the Enable this fix image. It will download a MSI that unregisters the HCPprotocol as a workaround, because there is currently no patch available.
-- Manuel Humberto Santander Pelez | http://twitter.com/manuelsantander | http://manuel.santander.name | msantand at isc dot sans dot org
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.org Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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