Re: Hole in IE Security

From: *Vanguard* (reply-to-newsgroup_at_to-email.use-Reply.obey-signature.invalid)
Date: 05/31/04


Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 17:54:25 -0500

MaggieRose said in
news:07386E40-66E8-48BB-8B2C-A39FFA8DA133@microsoft.com:
> Whenever I run Spybot it comes up with DOS EXPLOIT. It fixes it but
> it's there the next time. THe description given by Spybot is "Thre
> is a hole in IE allowing websites to execute code without asking you
> first. You can find more informatin at
> http://security.greymagic.com/adv@gm001-ie/ . When I go to that site
> it is very confuisng, I am no expert and from what I can see it
> involves going into the registry which I'm afraid to meddle with. Is
> there a way to fix this? How dangerous is it to the security of my
> computer? Can anyone help?

See my post in the Google Groups thread at
http://snipurl.com/dso_exploit.

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