“Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Corporation are
scrambling to address a rash of serious security vulnerabilities in
software designed to interact with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer
browser.”
“These bugs are particularly insidious because they allow
abusers to plant arbitrary programs on a computer merely by sending
an e-mail or convincing a user to visit a malicious Web page.
“The user would receive no security warnings since the programs
exploiting the flaws bypass the security controls of Internet
Explorer and pass undetected through anti-virus traps.”