Another day, another Internet Explorer security hole

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Mar 2, 2010

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but yet
another Internet Explorer security hole has been revealed. Is there
no end to the ways that IE can be broken into? It doesn’t look like
it!

“In this latest flaw, there’s an unpatched bug in VBScript that
hackers can use to drop malware on 32-bit Windows XP machines
running IE 7 and 8….

“Microsoft says that, as far as they know, no one’s using this
exploit yet. Yeah, and I don’t know that anyone is playing hockey
in Canada today, but I’m willing to bet someone is.”


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SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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