Yet another huge exploit in Internet Explorer discovered and published by Secunia
The scary part? The exploit can easily allow any site you visit to create windows folders and files on your computer, and thereby destroy your windows installation, turn your machine into a spam zombie, turn your machine into remote storage for illegal material that could put you in jail for a very long time, etc. ad infinitum.
More information over at Virtuelvis: Stop using Internet Explorer! Now!
So whats the fix for Internet Explorer? Quit using it. There is really no reason to continue using Internet Explorer anymore. Internet Explorer 6 is outdated and VERY unsecure.
Instead I would suggest installing another browser, such as one or both of these two:
