taken from www.securityspace.com
attention Windows users for the following 2 high risk vulnerabilities

1)
Title: IE 5.01 5.5 6.0 Cumulative patch (Q316059)
ID: 10861
Category: Windows
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecu....html?id=10861
Summary: Determines whether the hotfix Q313675 is installed
Description:
The 11 Febuary 2002 Cumulative Patch for IE is
not applied on the remote host.
Impact of vulnerability: Run code of attacker's choice.
Recommendation: Customers using IE should install the patch immediately.
Affected Software:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
NOTE: Might require full registry access on win2k and xp
Supersedes MS01-055 and ms01-058
See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...n/ms02-005.asp
Risk factor : High


2)
Title: Microsoft's SQL Server Brute Force
ID: 10862
Category: Windows
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecu....html?id=10862
Summary: Microsoft's SQL Server Brute Force
Description: The SQL Server has a common password for one or more accounts. These accounts may be used to gain access to the records in the database or even allow remote command execution. Solution: Please set a difficult to guess password for these accounts.
Risk Factor: HIGH

Perhaps you all did know this already but for those who don't : apply the solutions