F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab - VML Exploit - Internet Explorer
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It was discovered in the wild by Sunbelt. Microsoft published Microsoft Security Advisory (925568) yesterday regarding the issue. The update is currently scheduled for October 10th - the next regular patch Tuesday.
Like the WMF exploit it is advised to unregister the susceptible dll from the system as a workaround for the vulnerability.
To unregister the dll you should execute from Start, Run:
regsvr32 /u "%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll"
This differs slightly from Microsoft's recommendation - so as to include localized versions of Windows.
The vgx.dll component solely handles Vector Markup Language (VML). ..."
Note To Self: Do this on my all machines...
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