Once again, computer attackers are taking advantage of a recent vulnerability — this time an unpatched flaw in Microsoft’s widely used Internet Explorer browser — to have their way with vulnerable Windows machines through malicious programs known as Trojans. The software security holes that affect Internet Explorer versions 5.01 through 6.0, first disclosed in August, have been the basis for several attacks that reportedly consist of efforts to cash in on redirected Web traffic.
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No Patch Yet for Internet Explorer Qhost-1 Trojan
Posted by: Jay Lyman October 3, 2003 09:49 AMOnce again, computer attackers are taking advantage of a recent vulnerability — this time an unpatched flaw in Microsoft’s widely used Internet Explorer browser — to have their way with vulnerable Windows machines through malicious programs known as Trojans. The software security holes that affect Internet Explorer versions 5.01 through 6.0, first disclosed in August, have been the basis for several attacks that reportedly consist of efforts to cash in on redirected Web traffic.