A new security vulnerability puts Windows users at risk of serious
cyberattacks, Microsoft warned late Wednesday.
The vulnerability affects all recent Windows versions, including Vista,
which Microsoft has promoted heavily for its security. The operating
system software is flawed in the way it handles animated cursors,
Microsoft said in a security advisory.

An attacker could exploit the vulnerability through a Web page or e-mail
message with rigged computer code, Microsoft said.

"Upon viewing a Web page, previewing or reading a specially crafted
message, or opening a specially crafted e-mail attachment, the attacker
could cause the affected system to execute code," Microsoft said in its
advisory.

Such holes are often exploited by cybercrooks to do "drive-by"
installations of malicious software. Spyware and remote control tools
that turn PCs into drones for the attacker are silently loaded onto
vulnerable computers by tricking people to visit a rigged website or
hacking a trusted site. The website for the Super Bowl stadium is a
recent example of a drive-by attack.

Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/hacking/2007-03-30-cursor-risk_N.htm

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Have you seen this?
MS=More holes than a sieve.

hmm i herd it was just vista
or is it just anything that is running ie

That's the thing about windows. There are always holes to plug. Windows
starts with all of it's holes unplugged, then you have to plug the ones
that you want pluged. With Linux, everything is pluged, and you have to
configure it to open the holes up.