Microsoft officials said on Sunday that they are continuing to investigate the attacks that are exploiting the unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer. The company said that it doesn t look like any of the attacks are being targeted at consumers. Microsoft is recommending that customers running older versions of Windows XP and IE6 upgrade in order to take advantage of the advanced memory protections that are part of IE7 and IE8. Given that there is public exploit code available and that the vulnerability has been used in known attacks, the company could release an emergency patch before mid-February.
Source: https://threatpost.com/attacks-continuing-against-ie-flaw-microsoft-preps-patch-011810/73380/