New IE vulnerability. Is Avast able to prevent it?

Viruses and worms
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Hello. Today in a forum i visit there was an article about this:
http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com/alerts/alert.php?AlertID=452
I use Firefox and usually i feel secure. i use Avast HE and on Sunday, while I was working on the pc with the connection open, but not browsing, Avast Web Shield started scanning a bbc site. I was very confused and deleted all my cookies and did a safe mode scan. Avast, Ewido, Ad-aware, Spybot and MS Antispyware (all updated) didn’t detect anything. Yesterday I found a cookie of bbc.co.uk in my browser and deleted it and blocked it. This morning after I did a boot scan and again Avast didn’t detect anything. But opening my firefox browser, after having been on-line a bit, Avast started scanning the bbc.co.uk site again. I NEVER visited a bbc site. Why is that? Do I have to be scared? Because I am now.
I got a screencap . Sorry it’s big but i have a big screen. And before that Avast scanned anothe news site. it’s an italian site called Ansa. What’s happening? :cry:

[edit]I’ve noticed another thing right now. my homepage is the italian version of Google. The second screecaps shows it. But I just noticed that the first one is an english page. is my browser being hijacted without Avast noticing? :cry:

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Hi;

Can’t help very much, but here is link to a thread I started in Avast home/pro forum:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=20247.0

Hope this is of some help to you. Anyway it is related to the same vulnerability as you mention in your reference article.

HL

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Hi hlecter,

But this grand anti-spyware shell program does. Hitman Pro, read about the new features:
http://www.hitmanpro.nl/

polonus

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thanks! I asked the firefox forum. They replayed that Avast was scanning that page because of the live Bookmarks in my favourites folder. Firefox has in default some live bookmarks and I didn’t know about this. So it seems Avast was triggered to scan the page when those bookmarks were being updated. I don’t know how live bookmarks work and frankly i don’t want them. So i deleted that folder. But I’d like to know more about Avast reaction to this firefox feature so in the future I’ll not get a stroke by seeing unknown pages being scanned. Where can I find more info about this? Thanks for the help!