IE Security Issues?

Never heard of this before

[MatthewHSE]

From another thread: [webmasterworld.com]

It is amazing that a webmaster for a strong site can use IE and disclose all his private passwords to intruders.

Most yahoo groups admin are loosing their groups cause of some pitfall in IE.

How is it that IE discloses private passwords, and is that behavior unique to IE?

[tedster]

The list of exploits for IE is very long at this point, and several of them allowed this kind of theft.

Microsoft has issued many patches for MANY problems. For a while it seemed like one a week! And some of the holes they patched could be expoited even when you were using a different browser: all you needed was to have IE installed.

The ongoing problem is that most people don't patch their browser, so the vulnerability goes on, even though a fix is available. This keeps the writers of viruses, worms and trojans very happy.

[tedster]

Thought I'd add this - one common exploit used IE's handling of frames to do the the deed. If you haven't patched your IE since May 2003, then you're vulnerable here.

[drbrain]

You can also retrieve text from the clipboard with IE, and they have not (and won't) patch this. Anything you have in the clipboard is fair game to a malicious website.