Friday, June 11, 2004

Toolbar spreads via IE flaws

An adware purveyor has apparently used two previously unknown security flaws in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser to install a toolbar on victims’ computers that triggers pop-up ads. One flaw lets an attacker run a program on a victim’s machine, while the other enables malicious code to “cross zones,” or run with privileges higher than normal.

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