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Comment why this affect IE? (Score 1) 130

Although this the windows vulnerability, IE and outlook still affected because Internet Explorer and Outlook use the vulnerable library of Windows operating system (so-called VML component) when rendering Vector Markup Language graphics. But not all internet browser are affected because this vulnerability affects only to Internet Explorer. Additionally, other browsers using the rendering component of Internet Explorer, e.g. Avant Browser, are affected.Other Internet browsers, like Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera use a different technique known as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The following Windows versions have been confirmed as vulnerable: Windows XP (Professional and Home Edition) Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 Windows 2000 (Professional and Server) Service Pack 4 Windows 2003 Server The following OS's are vulnerable as well, but they are not supported any more: Windows 95 Windows 98 and 98SE Windows Me Windows NT

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