Microsoft IE exploit code unreliable, but more coming Articles / Security Posted by l33tdawg on Nov 24, 2009 - 12:00 AM Symantec Monday said the Internet Explorer zero-day exploit code published over the weekend does not work Symantec Monday said the Internet Explorer zero-day exploit code published over the weekend does not work reliably but that a better written version is likely on the way. The Symantec Security Response division also said its research reveals that the exploit works on IE6 and IE7 and there is no reason yet to suspect that it works on other versions of the browser. Those two versions, however, comprise nearly 40% of the browsers in use today. Symantec said that the affected Windows platforms running IE6 or IE7 include XP, Vista, 2000 client and server and 2003 server. Symantec is testing other versions of Windows to see if they are vulnerable when running IE6 or IE7. This article is from Hack In The Box   http://www.hackinthebox.org/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=33990