A recently disclosed vulnerability for Windows IE has some serious/amusing (would that be seriously amusing?) consequences.
The vulnerability allows anyone to insert a few lines of HTML that launch any program on the viewing computer. Although this can only launch applications that are already present, the consequences are still very serious.
I must admit though, it's pretty funny when viewing a web page launches the windows calculator. For a demonstration of this, Read More... (currently for NT/2K/XP only)
The object below should launch calculator for Windows NT/2000/XP.
pretty cool, huh?