IE Vulnerable to Cross-Browser Spyware Attack

An anonymous reader writes "The Register reports that Firefox can be used to infect IE on Windows. By visiting a malicious site with Firefox, a user can infect their install of Internet Explorer. Other alternative browers may expose the same vulnerability. The article quotes the CTO of ScanSafe as saying that '[j]ust switching away from IE does not give adequate projection. Now that Firefox and other alternative browsers have a toehold in the market the hacking community will get busy exploiting the vulnerabilities that exist in any complex browser.'" VitalSecurity's report points out that this vulnerability can (only) affect Windows users who use Sun's Java Runtime Environment.

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Re:Caveat

[picklepuss]

That's okay... it looks like shit in IE too. The browser has nothing what-so-ever to do with the site designer's artistic ability (or lack thereof)