Thus, if you download an infected MHT file, IE will know that it needs to open the MHT file with caution (at “low integrity,” in a sandbox). That severely limits this exploit’s reach.

It may be possible that in the upcoming future we may see the group behind the Locky ransomware use MHT (MHTML) files as email attachments and deliver their malicious payload to victims' machines.

While that does suggest a patch is on the way, it leaves millions of users potentially vulnerable unless they either turn off Internet Explorer or point to another app that can open MHT files.

Exploitation is possible when users open a specially-crafted MHT file that was downloaded with Microsoft's Edge browser. This type of files are MHTML Web Archives, the default format Internet ...

She made changes to the document and attemtpted to save it by clicking file, save as, inside of IE, which resulted in her saving a .mht file. Is there anyway to get to the updated word doc at this ...