More Vulnerabilities For Internet Explorer
Gregg Keizer Nov 07 2003

This time, hackers have posted exploits that can insert malicious code
onto systems running Microsoft's Web browser.

Internet Explorer users are again potentially at risk, this time from
hackers who have posted exploits that have the ability to insert
malicious code onto systems running Microsoft's Web browser.

According to Alfred Huger, an analyst with Symantec Corp.'s security
response team, several new vulnerabilities within Internet Explorer 5.5
and 6.0 have been spotted this week on security mailing lists.

Among them is one for which exploit code has been seen in the wild.
Hackers who can entice users to specially crafted Web sites--which
contain Visual Basic scripts that point to an executable file embedded
as a string array in the page--can gain control of the system, and if
they want, drop code of their own onto the machine. Typically such code
is in the form of a Trojan horse ...

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