Microsoft is due to issue a patch to fix a security flaw believed to have affected as many as 10,000 websites.

The emergency patch should be available from 1800 GMT on 17 December, Microsoft has said.

Example:

This advance notification provides the software subject as the bulletin identifier, because the official Microsoft Security Bulletin numbers are not issued until release. The bulletin summary that replaces this advance notification will have the proper Microsoft Security Bulletin numbers (in the MSyy-#*$! format) as the bulletin identifier.

No idea why I need to know this, no idea what they are trying to tell me, no idea if I should even care.

Obviously written by a committee of lawyers.

[edited by: Rugles at 4:22 pm (utc) on Dec. 17, 2008]

Until the update is available, Microsoft strongly encourages customers to follow the Protect Your Computer Guidance

Are they recommending I use firefox instead? :)

Would be a good time to see if you have the latest version.

Firefox just updated itself to version 3.0.5

None of my server installations required a reboot, but all XP and Vista machines have.