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Microsoft has another IE flaw
CURSED BY ITS HAIRBALL CODE, Microsoft has released another security warning relating to a bug in Internet Explorer.
In a blog post on its technet website the firm said that the vulnerability, which has been disclosed elsewhere, would give hackers access to personal information.
Hackers would only need to redirect the user to a site containing malicious code for them to be affected. However, at present the Vole said that it would only affect those that had disabled Internet Explorer Protected mode.
Jerry Bryant, security communications manager, posted, "Customers running Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 in their default configuration on Windows Vista or later operating systems are not vulnerable to this issue as they benefit from Internet Explorer Protected Mode, which protects from this issue. Windows XP users, or users who have disabled Protected Mode, can help protect themselves by implementing Network Protocol Lockdown. We have created a Microsoft Fix It to automate this. The Fix It can be run on individual systems or enterprises can deploy it through their automated systems."
Graham Cluley suggested that Microsoft was making light of something that could prove to be an issue for many users. On his blog he wrote, "Of course it would be bad news if malicious hackers took advantage of this flaw, as there is no patch yet available from Microsoft. It remains to be seen how quickly Microsoft can roll-out a proper fix for the problem, but hopefully it will be sooner rather than later as it does sound as though the vulnerability is trivial to exploit."
Athough Bryant said that Microsoft was not aware of any attacks that make the most of the issue, it is working on a further update and will release that when it is ready. "As with any update, we have to balance overall quality and ensure application compatibility before we release it", he added.
Shorthand for 'after someone exploits it,' we reckon. µ
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Just use Chrome.
hackers will find an exploit to whatever most people are using. Firefox will be the new IE. Chrome will be the new Firefox. And IE will rise from the ashes as an unlikely underdog and eventually reclaim its thrown and we'll all go round and round.
who cares, really. computers are so 2000.
Amazed at all these idiots attacking IE while ignoring the fact Firefox had more security worries than all the browsers combined last year
I find it amazing that people continue to use and "defend" Microsoft IE after all the damning evidence against using it, especially when the solution to the problem is just a free download away (Firefox or Opera). Are these the same people who don't wear their seatbelts (or put their kids in car seats) because they have never yet been killed in a traffic accident?
Of course, they could be just being paid to say those things...pretty hard to tell.
And what are the chances that the "only" buggy, poorly-written, insecure code is to be found in IE, when all of Microsoft's other products (including all versions of Windows) seem to require antivirus defense and constant patches which never quite seem able to fix all the security problems.
It amazes me that people continue to use Windows...
I've been using IE for more than ten years and I've never had a problem. Only been using a Firewall and AV security suite for the last three years, not really because I needed it, but because I could easily afford it and I still don't have any problems, except when the firewall is blocking benevolent game updates. I don't know where all these reported bugs come from and they do seem to be rather hypothetical quite often, but they never hurt me. I got firefox too, but I never get to use it, because it's always bugging me to update it, when I start it.. FF is not a browser, but an updater.. and a pretty lame one of that, besides who needs anything else when you've got IE and common sense, eh?!
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OH come on Microsoft get out of the consumer IE browser business. I know IE was meant for behind a firewall protected corporate environment. IE was always meant to be used for sharing files and what not in a corporate environment.Consumers don't use IE for the same purposes. They want to browse.That to me is the crux of your problems with IE.Get your people to start from scratch for a consumer version.
Let me say it again. How many times have you heard or read that, as an example, Firefox can not be used the way its designed in a corporate environment because it can't do what IE can do and I stress again, in a corporate environment where you have IT people constantly looking after the security, filtering, and updating on behalf of the employees. Consumers don't have IT people watching over their shoulders making sure the internet is safe for them. So design a browser for the consumer market.
"the flaw is only exploited if you are a victim of a MALICIOUS WEBSITE / WEEBSITE CREATOR"
Wrong. Trusted websites have been known to be hacked and had malware exploiting browser vunerabilities planted on them.
So, you use Maxthon instead of Internet Explorer to browse the web, rather unaware
of the fact, that to all intents and purposes, Maxthon actually IS Internet Explorer.
Maxthon isn't a browser in itself. It's a 3rd party wraparound GUI. A fancy front end
with a few extra features. The IE/Trident rendering engine is still under the hood,
so you're still vulnerable to all the security vulns found in Internet Explorer.
everyone is quick to jump all over Microsoft, while I dont like the money hungry, eugenics owning Steve jobs as much as the next pro lifer. you have to at least take 1 concession and that is, the flaw is only exploited if you are a victim of a MALICIOUS WEBSITE / WEEBSITE CREATOR . this means that if your safe have good AV and only visit sites that you know, and dont visit too many russian porn sites, then you will be fine, people are pretty hard on MS for these flaws, when its the hacker/ malicious user exploiting them, so give them some slack yall
Well pretty straight forward, STOP UNSING INTERNET EXPLORER! I'm not very keen on Firefurret either, therefore I use Maxthon. It's just as IE should be: Fast, does not use GB of ram for a few tabs opened, user friendly, stable and secure too.
What are you waiting for?
...isn't that an oxymoron?