It's already patched, and caught (Score 2)

From TFA: The PoC makes use of the following vulnerability and therefore for testing the PoC the patch must not be installed. MS12-063 Microsoft Internet Explorer execCommand Use-After-Free Vulnerability This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2012-4969. So it's already preventable. (Yes, yes, patching is a bitch, doesn't happen, etc etc.) And also, it's already detected: Please note that Windows Defender detects the Win8 PoC as being an exploit and blocks execution. Yes, it's an interesting PoC, but it's not exactly taking my breath away overall.