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Miscreants are using an unpatched security bug in Internet Explorer to install malicious software from rigged Web sites, experts warned Tuesday.

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“Fully patched Internet Explorer browsers are vulnerable,” Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign’s iDefense, said in an e-mailed statement. “This new zero-day attack is trivial to reproduce and has great potential for widespread Web-based attacks in the near future.”

(from ZDNet, Porn sites exploit new IE flaw)

On the one hand, I am curious why ZDNet specifically mentions porn. The exploit could just as easily be on a web site with photos of kittens. On the other hand, I am wondering why on the gods’ green earth anyone is still using Internet Explorer to begin with. Use Firefox, you knuckleheads!