..and now it has been published and circulating through the internet
October 10, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. yesterday acknowledged that exploit code is circulating for a vulnerability it reported six months ago, but it has yet to patch.
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HereI don't understand why microsoft does this, they seem to have no problem finding bugs, but they don't patch them until they really start to get serious, like when the actual exploit gets published.