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Helsinki (pte023/26.11.2004/12:30) - Finnish authorities have issued a warning of a security flaw that affects the latest version of Internet Explorer. The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FCRA) http://www.ficora.fi/englanti/index.html have warned computer users of the Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 web browser of the Bofra worm, which redirects unsuspecting internet users to infected websites. According to FCRA information security adviser Arsi Heinonen, people should not use the Internet Explorer 6 browser until Microsoft has issued a patch fixing the problem.
According to statistics from the Finnish Internet security firm F-Secure http://www.f-secure.com , Bofra is currently the sixth most distributed virus worldwide. The bug spreads itself by e-mail and, as opposed to other viruses, does not contain any malicious software or attachments, but just a link to a webpage. According to F-Secure spokeswoman Katrin Tocheva, once the user clicks on the link, it automatically infects the machine.
Users owning the latest virus protection should be immunised against existing Bofra e-mail worms, said Tocheva. There are however no guarantees against future viruses until Microsoft issues a patch and users have downloaded it and installed it onto their machines. According to Heinonen, no other editions of Internet Explorer are suspected of being affected by the security problem.
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