Ubizen, an important player in the security field discovered three new leaks in microsoft internet explorer, they advice not to use IE until the patches come out.

11/06/04

Two vulnerabilities are very serious. They are an easy way to take control over the victim's box the third one is related to active X and involves a privacy problem.

http://www.ubizen.be/c_about_us/2_pu.../040611_e.html


The exploits are so called 'zero day' exploits. Their potential exist in the software since the beginning.

The best advice is to change to anothjer browser or if you take the risk to use IE, disable activeX scripting.