SAN FRANCISCO, CA, (NAMC) – Internet security company SonicWall (NASDAQ: SNWL) has leaped into action as they received notice of the identification of a code execution hole in Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Internet Explorer.

The company has issued signatures that will protect those users that utilize SonicWall’s Internet threat prevention technology from the vulnerability.

Boris YanovskyVP of security services for SonicWall said "These signatures have been automatically downloaded to users of our threat prevention services to protect them from the code execution hole, No action is required by our users. Microsoft has yet to release a patch for this vulnerability and a Proof of Concept Exploit is circulating in the wild."

SonicWall closed at $7.24 on Friday.

Elizabeth Losada
Technology News Correspondent
NAMC Newswire
www.namcnewswire.com

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