It must get tiresome listening to me ramble on repeatedly about the dangers of using Internet Explorer. But man, once again there is a critical flaw in the code that could compromise your machine if you’re running IE. This one is preposterously dangerous – visit a website with a specially created image on the webpage and BAM, your box is compromised. Folks….go get whatever your favorite flavor of mozilla is and abandon IE. There are more attacks to come along the lines of this exploit too – the leak of MS’s source code opens up a world of potential exploits.

Specifics, in case you can’t be bothered to read the article I’ve linked to – if you’re running IE 5, your machine is vulnerable. If you won’t switch to Mozilla, at least upgrade to IE 6 using Windows Update.