Microsoft warns of security loophole in browser
A recently discovered loophole in the software means users may be infected when they visit a website with malicious software code. -ST
Wed, Dec 17, 2008
The Straits Times
By Chua Hian Hou
PEOPLE using the world's most popular Web browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, could find their computers hijacked by hackers.
A recently discovered loophole in the software means users may be infected when they visit a website with malicious software code, said a Microsoft security message.
So far, attacks have been limited to Version 7 of Internet Explorer, although users of other versions of the software may also be vulnerable.
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