IMPORTANT: Microsoft Internet Explorer emergency patch available

It's very unusual for Microsoft to release a patch out-of-cycle (i.e. not on Patch Tuesday). This is for all versions of Internet Explorer, even IE8, so if you still run IE run-don't-walk to Microsoft for some security goodness.

This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The more severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer.

This has been exploited for a month or so. I haven't posted much on it, because there really wasn't much you could do. Now there's a patch, so you'll want to get patching. Or switch to Firefox, which is a lot faster to get fixes out.