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 ...

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.

There were already a number of reasons to not use Internet Explorer. But if you needed another one, here it is. The zero-day exploit itself lies within Internet Explorer’s use of MHT files when ...

Kolsek then tried downloading the same file with Edge and opening it with IE, which remains the default application for MHT files. The exploit worked.

When the MHT file iis opened, it will download a RAR archive containing a .NET malware downloader from “hXXps://a [.]pomf [.]cat/gectpe.rar”. The RAR archive contains an EXE file, which uses ...