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  • New Exploit Rocks IE, Downloads Scores Of Spyware, Adware

    09/19/2006 5:36:00 PM PDT · by Eagle9 · 94 replies · 2,911+ views
    TechWeb ^ | September 19, 2006 | Gregg Keizer
    An unpatched vulnerability in all editions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is being exploited, security researchers said Tuesday, with the attack dumping a broad range of adware, spyware, and Trojans onto PCs whose users simply surf to an infected or malicious site. First reported by Sunbelt Software -- although rival Internet Security Systems claimed it was the first to discover the bug -- the vulnerability is in how IE renders VML (Vector Mark-up Language), an extension of XML that defines on-the-Web images in vector graphics format. The previously unknown -- and thus unpatched -- bug inside IE is already being...