IE has flaw of doom

[ovi]

A UK group of hackers has published a zero-day exploit which puts means IE users only have to visit a site to be attacked.
Computer Terrorism's exploit allows a remote hacker to take complete control of a Windows system.

To prove Computer Terrorism's system worked, it posted a proof-of-concept exploit, available here, which launches the Windows Calculator.

The flaw is based on a Javascript Window() vulnerability which Microsoft has known about for several months. However Vole has been mistakenly treating it as a low-priority denial-of-service flaw, a spokesComputer Terrorist said.

The exploit works on fully patched Windows XP systems with default IE installations and could be good-night Vienna to anyone using the Microsoft browser.

Full article: theinquirer.net/?article=27850

[maro25]

IE is full of exploits! Each month there is a new exploit out! That's why people are migrating to FireFox!

[ovi]

I don't like IE, but due to my work, I have to use it.

Ovi

[maro25]

Well me too ovi, still more than 50% of users use IE so we always have to make sure that designs are working fine with IE first