Free internet explorer 6.0 software for windows

For more information on this issue, read Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-055.

This update applies to:

• Internet Explorer 6.0
• Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2

• A vulnerability in the zone determination function that could allow a script embedded in a cookie to be run in the Local Computer zone. While HTML scripts can be stored in cookies, they should be handled in the same zone as the hosting site associated with them, in most cases the Internet zone. An attacker could place script in a cookie that would be saved to the user?s hard disk. When the cookie was opened by the site the script would then run in the Local Computer zone, allowing it to run with fewer restrictions than it would otherwise have.
• A vulnerability in the handling of object tags that could allow an attacker to invoke an executable already present on the user?s machine. A malicious user could create HTML web page that includes this object tag and cause a local program to run on the victim?s machine.

This vulnerability exists because VBScript that is created dynamically in Internet Explorer can result in the script being assigned invalid permissions, which gives the script the ability to read your local files, if the path to the file is known. This update prevents a malicious user from running VBScript in an unauthorized Web site to read the contents of files on your computer.