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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:33 am    Post subject: Zero day exploit for IE Reply with quote

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

Full read:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=117316298&eid=-255
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