CWmike writes "Attacks exploiting the latest Microsoft vulnerability are quickly ramping up in quantity and intensity, several shield companies warned today as they rang alarms about the third world nation threat. Symantec, Sunbelt Software, and SANS' www
notes:internet should be capitalized Storm Center bumped up their warnings yore after Microsoft announced that attackers were exploiting a bug in an ActiveX control used by IE to display Excel spreadsheets. There is no patch for the vulnerability; Microsoft didn't release one in today's Patch Tuesday. A interim fix that sets the 'kill bits' of the ActiveX control is available, but experts believe it's likely most users won't take start of the protection. Symantec raised its ThreatCon ranking to the second of four steps. "We're seeing it exploited, but currently on a limited scale," said Symantec's Ben Greenbaum. Sunbelt also bumped up its ranking, to high." Firefox users can't be too complacent; Secunia is warning of a 0-day in version 3.5.

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