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To: Salo
This bears repeating:

Use a different web browser

There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser. Such a decision may, however, reduce the functionality of sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML, VBScript, and ActiveX. Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML). It is possible for a different browser on a Windows system to invoke IE to handle ITS protocol URLs. Systems Affected Vendor Status Date Updated Microsoft Corporation Vulnerable 5-Apr-2004 References

11 posted on 04/08/2004 3:22:21 PM PDT by zeugma (The Great Experiment is over.)
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To: zeugma
This bears repeating:

Use a different web browser

In its defense, MSIE does seem easier for the Pre-K and Kindergarten set to use than some of the other browsers are.

12 posted on 04/08/2004 5:09:04 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: zeugma
This bears repeating:

Use a different web browser

Don't you mean use a different OS??

Linux, OS X, Beos, DOS, Commodore 64??

13 posted on 04/08/2004 6:26:35 PM PDT by amigatec (There are no significant bugs in our software... Maybe you're not using it properly.- Bill Gates)
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To: zeugma
Not ONLY use a different browser, but go into the Internet security settings in Internet Options, and disable or change to "prompt" ALL ActiveX settings.
18 posted on 04/09/2004 4:52:07 PM PDT by AFreeBird (your mileage may vary)
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