Moshe Ben Abu, also known as Trancer00t, has thanked McAfee for helping him develop exploit code for a flaw in Internet Explorer 6 and 7.

"'I didn't find the vuln', just found it in the wild. With a little help from McAfee (http://j.mp/c4W3xA) :-),' the Israeli security researcher noted in a Twitter update on Thursday," writes The Register's John Leyden.

"McAfee's blog post helped Ben Abu to locate an exploit already developed and published by the bad guys, something he'd have been able to locate anyway," Leyden writes. "Nonetheless the incident has prompted McAfee to more closely review blog posts for stray clues, CNet reports."

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