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Firefox & IE Together Brew Up Security Trouble

That’s the latest update from security researchers who initially laid the blame on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the latest zero-day exploit that also can afflict those using the Firefox Web browser. Users could face a “highly critical” risk if they have both IE and Firefox version 2.0, or later, loaded on their computer.

The trouble begins when browsing a malicious site while using IE and it registers a “firefoxurl://” URI (uniform resource identifier) handler, which allows the browser to interact with specific resources on the Web more...