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November 17, 2004 Researchers have found a trio of flaws in Internet Explorer--making almost 20 in total. TAGS: vulnerability, flaw, Microsoft Internet Explorer, researcher, Service Pack 2, security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows

August 20, 2004 Independent researcher finds an Internet Explorer vulnerability that could turn drag-and-drop into drag-and-infect. TAGS: Service Pack 2, flaw, researcher, attacker, security, vulnerability, patch, service pack, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

November 17, 2005 Threat is considered moderate, since worst-case attack might crash some machines but not others, says security firm. TAGS: Microsoft Windows 2000, exploit, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows XP, service pack, denial of service, security, firewall, researcher, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

September 6, 2005 Vulnerability could allow an attacker to take remote control of a user's system, security specialist says. TAGS: eEye Digital Security, flaw, vulnerability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, service pack, installation, security, researcher, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Web browser, Microsoft Windows

October 20, 2004 What do Internet Explorer, Mozilla's browsers, and Opera all have in common? Bugs. TAGS: security bug, vulnerability, flaw, KDE, Opera Software, Mozilla Corp., Web browser, attacker, Microsoft Internet Explorer, security, Firefox, researcher, Microsoft Corp., attack, Microsoft Windows XP

January 6, 2006 A US-CERT report that found Microsoft's OS had fewer vulnerabilities than Linux-Unix in 2005 is flawed itself, critics say. TAGS: LINUX/UNIX, vulnerability, flaw, researcher, open-source community, statistics, Unix, operating system, open source, Linux, platform, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Windows NT, security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

January 25, 2005 An antivirus firm says Microsoft overlooked a potential exploit in its last Windows fixes. The software giant disagrees. TAGS: GeCad, antivirus software, antivirus, exploit, vulnerability, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack, antivirus company, HTML, flaw, patch, security, representative, Microsoft Corp., researcher, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

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