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  • IE Exploit Strikes, Installs Spyware

    03/25/2006 6:03:23 PM PST · by Gomez · 12 replies · 629+ views
    Yahoo ^ | Mar 24 | Gregg Keizer
    The unpatched CreateTextRange vulnerability in Internet Explorer is already being used by at least one Web site to install spyware on users' machines, a security organization said Friday. "We just received a report that a particular site uses the vulnerability to install a spybot variant," the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC) warned Friday in an alert. "It is a minor site with insignificant visitor numbers according to Netcraft's 'Site rank.'" Disclosed only Wednesday, the flaw in IE 5.01, 6.0, and the January version of IE 7 Beta 2 Preview has security vendors worried because a patch isn't available from...