Crackers target Windows Media encoder bug

It didn’t take long for exploit code to become available after last week’s Microsoft bug fix for the vulnerability in Windows Media Player. The code is distributed in 2 ways: a simple cleartext program where the shellcode has been altered and a widely deployed toolkit called e2. This causes a visitor to a web site to be redirected to another which then launches an attack. The result is that a machine can be completely taken control of so make sure your weekly MS patches are installed.