Posted By:
Andy Yaco-Mink
Posted On:
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002
GreyMagic Software has released a report detailing security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer versions 5.5 and 6. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to steal private local documents, steal cookies from any site, forge trusted web sites, steal clipboard information or even execute arbitrary programs. Until Microsoft releases a security patch, GreyMagic suggests that users browsing with affected versions of IE turn off Active Scripting.
(Of course you could also switch to a browser that doesn't have such problems ... like this one, or this one, or this one ... for instance.)