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Benjamin Tobias Franz has discovered a weakness in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The problem is caused due to certain objects not being initialized correctly. This can be exploited to crash a vulnerable browser via some specially crafted JavaScript code called directly when a site has been loaded. NOTE: It is currently not believed that this issue can be exploited for code execution purposes, but this cannot be ruled out completely.

I have run spybot and it didn't see it. I despise MS' model for adding "features" to IE.

Microsoft has announced that it will release three patches for its Windows operating system next week. The fixes, which will carry a maximum threat rating of "critical," will be issued Tuesday, the company said. Under its two-month-old advance notification program, Microsoft typically gives the public early notice of the number of updates it plans to deliver and of the severity of the vulnerabilities the updates fix. The only other detail the software giant revealed Thursday was that people may have to restart their Windows systems for the patches to take effect. Microsoft did not say whether the patches will fix...