Two million computers 'infected' after Internet Explorer security flaw

[JohnWxy]

http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-12-16-Two-million-computers-infected-by-Internet-Explorer-security-flaw

More than two million computers worldwide have been infected because of a major security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, the software giant admitted today.

The problem, first revealed last week, allows criminals to hijack computers and steal passwords if the user visits an infected website.

As many as 10,000 sites have already been compromised to take advantage of the flaw, according to anti-virus software producer Trend Micro.

So far the websites, mostly based in China, have largely been used to obtain computer game passwords which can be sold on the black market.
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Has microsoft come up with a patch for this yet? anybody hear?

[JM]

1. Major out-of-band release last week

Microsoft sent out a notice to corporate users last week. I saw it as part of my employer's emergency release.

JM

[trotsky]

2. Please note, the article is from Dec. 16th.

A patch was released a day or two later.

[RC]

3. 2 million computer world wide?

What percentage is that? .2%? .3%?
If 60% of the united States population have computers, then that is something like 180,000,000 computers.
So 2 million computers world wide is supposed to panic us? Yeah, sure.