Posted on 12/17/2008 10:00:00 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Critical Vulnerability In Internet Explorer Found, Patch on the Way Jason Mick (Blog) - December 17, 2008 12:50 PM
A new security flaw discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has the company and its customers losing much sleep
News broke in the security world earlier this week that a critical vulnerability had been found in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. The vulnerability could be used to take over computers and is known to be currently being used to steal passwords.
Rick Ferguson, a senior security adviser at security firm Trend Micro says thus far the hole has only been exploited to steal online game passwords, but the attacks could become much more serious for unpatched users. He states, "It is inevitable that it will be adapted by criminals. It's just a question of modifying the payload the trojan installs."
The seriousness of the flaw was evidenced by Microsoft's rather public announcement of the vulnerability and panicked rush to develop a patch. So-called "out-of-band" announcements from Microsoft are rare.
In this case it made such an announcement, stating in a press release, "Microsoft teams worldwide have been working around the clock to develop a security update to help protect our customers. Until the update is available, Microsoft strongly encourages customers to follow the Protect Your Computer Guidance at www.microsoft.com/protect, which includes activating the Automatic Update setting in Windows to ensure that they receive the update as soon as it is available."
Microsoft has announced that it will have a patch for the vulnerability by 1800 GMT on 17 December, available via Windows Update.
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Too many more problems with IE and people are going to jump ship in droves to FireFox, Safari or whatever, including me.
I’m using firefox right now but I prefer IE.
PING for the tech list.
I switched to Opera.
I downloaded mozilla firefox internet browser last night and it seems to work much faster than IE. I like mozilla better. With IE I would get cookie spyware when I logged onto myspace. Now with firefox that doesn’t happen anymore.
Microsoft - when you absolutely don’t care about quality.
I had the same recurring problem and then the entire system committed suicide the other day. I can't even figure out what version of IE I'm running at the moment, I think it is 5.
I occasionally will use firefox or chrome for a few weeks at a time, but I always end up back at IE.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I like this new Microsoft Mojave.
How do you change to Opera?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
OMG I was haxed!
Wierd.
Google is forever (new Bond movie).
Honest questions: How long have you used it and why do you think it is so good?
Firefox crashed a lot on my Linux, and I haven’t had those issues with Opera. Firefox has an advantage in plugins that are available for it, but I rarely need them, so for normal browsing, I prefer Opera, and use Firefox, when there is a particular plugin to use.
As suggested to me by another freeper a few months ago...
Download the “Adblock” and “NoScript” from the firefox site.
It’ll stop the annoying 3rd-party ads on the web sites and self-executing java applications.
FWIW...I love ‘em!
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