Internet Explorer Carved Up By Another Zero-Day Hole

9 Jun, 2004 at 2:55pm ET Article published in Tech

Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in Internet Explorer which allow a complete bypass of security and provide system access to a computer, including the installation of files on someone’s hard disk without their knowledge, through a single click.

Worse, the holes have been discovered from analysis of an existing link on the Internet and a fully functional demonstration of the exploit have been produced and been shown to affect even fully patched versions of Explorer. It has been rated “extremely critical” by security company Secunia, and the only advice is to disable Active Scripting support for all but trusted websites.

Yay, another vulnerability! -KF

Source: Computer World

Comments

9 Jun 2004 ~ 3:39pm primesuspect This is how the latest crop of disgusting spyware is getting installed...
9 Jun 2004 ~ 3:46pm Gobbles ahh the joys of using mozilla firefox....

Gobbles
9 Jun 2004 ~ 4:14pm Omega65 IE Sucks!

Of course being the biggest makes you the easiest target.....
9 Jun 2004 ~ 6:26pm Spinner

Omega65 wrote:

IE Sucks!

Of course being the biggest makes you the easiest target.....

Exactly.
9 Jun 2004 ~ 7:05pm mmonnin If you are not an idiot IE is fine. I use it and have never gotten anything unless I have installed it myself.

I would rather use IE and take my chances rather than not have HTML displayed properly. I noticed a few other things while I was at Sarcnet. I couldnt scroll while the blinker was in the quick reply. I would have to click on something else to scroll up.
9 Jun 2004 ~ 9:33pm gtghm

mmonnin wrote:

If you are not an idiot IE is fine. I use it and have never gotten anything unless I have installed it myself.

I would rather use IE and take my chances rather than not have HTML displayed properly. I noticed a few other things while I was at Sarcnet. I couldnt scroll while the blinker was in the quick reply. I would have to click on something else to scroll up.

Agreed