Internet Explorer was at that point useless for the vast majority of us, however at this point it is unsafe to have the obsolete browser on your PC. A security analyst, John Page, found another security imperfection in Internet Explorer that enables hackers to steal data.

Here’s the craziest part: This defect influences your Windows PC even if you never open the browser. So just by existing on your PC, IE enables malignant actors to take Windows users’ information.

The vulnerability lies in how the web browser handles the .MHT files (IE’s record format for web archives). web browsers today don’t utilize the .MHT format, so at whatever point a client endeavors to access such files on a Windows PC, the system opens IE by default.

To put it plainly, you don’t need to open IE for this adventure to work—simply opening a connection sent through chat or email will do the job.

Page tried the adventure utilizing the last form of Internet Explorer, which is, IE 11; this defenselessness influences Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012 R2 frameworks.

Yet, the most concerning part identified with this blemish is Microsoft’s reaction. Evidently, the product mammoth told Page that it would simply “consider” revealing a fix for the flaw in a future update. He contacted Microsoft in March before going public with the issue.

Despite the fact that Internet Explorer makes for under 10% of the whole browser market, the fact that this exploit just requires the victim to have IE on their PC makes it worrisome.