Currently, many websites at home and abroad have begun to exploit this vulnerability to spread malware, account theft trojans, and worm viruses. The exploit program for this vulnerability often disguises itself as an image. Simply by clicking on a website or email with malicious code embedded in an image, one can become infected with malicious programs. Regardless of whether you are using IE6 or IE7, or non-IE browsers such as Firefox or Opera, and regardless of the operating system being Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003, or Vista, there is a possibility of becoming infected.