[Lael]

Microsoft Corp. is investigating an alleged flaw in recent versions of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser software that could allow attackers to spoof legitimate Web sites, steal content from browser cookies and gain access to certain types of files on a victim's system.

It does a H*LL of a lot more than that!!!

Whether it is the UPnP flaw, or this new exploit, my Win ME system has been "taken over" by a "DNS SPOOF" attack three times in the last two weeks!! The attacker installs a Second MASTER Boot Record on a machine with only ONE physical hard drive and only ONE partition, namely C.

This second Master Boot Record then reserves 2 GIGABYTES on the drive for God only knows what!

MS is, IMHO, writing LOGIC TIME BOMBS!

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

[TechJunkYard]

IE v.6.0 is especially dangerous and should not be used unless patched.