MS announces more IE vulnerablities

[disciple]

Microsoft has urged users to be wary as three newly discovered bugs leave people open to attack while using the net.

All three bugs affect the software firm's Internet Explorer browser.

Security firms said the vulnerabilities were already being targeted by malicious hackers keen to catch out unsuspecting users.

Microsoft said it would produce patches for the vulnerabilities in its next security update due on 11 April.

Attack vector

The first of the problems discovered in Internet Explorer will simply make the browser program crash if it is used to visit a specially crafted webpage.

The other two vulnerabilities are potentially more serious because they can be used to take control of a victim's co

semi-old news. but be careful. .affects  fully patched machines runnin up to IE6 ( IE 7 safe , it would appear)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4849904.stm

[spinner]

wheyy sah..... i have more updates than actual installed programs on my PC, how much more updates can i hanlde!?!!?

[Nephilim]

firefox.no need to say more.

[Gambitt]

Opera is smaller.

[Nephilim]

true?damn
either way i like some of the extensions for firefox, Noscript is boss, especially when u on not-so-legal sites

[Heady]

i really doubt anyone still using IE!

[Gambitt]

true?damn
either way i like some of the extensions for firefox, Noscript is boss, especially when u on not-so-legal sites

A lot of them come standard with opera. Including a mail client.

You can even get windows updates with opera/firefox on 62nds.com, so I never use IE at all.

On the other hand, my boss has refused to accept that there is such a thing as a non-ie browser. But he's kinda dense like that.

[Czar]

i really doubt anyone still using IE!

I can guarantee you that some still are.

[disciple]

fuh sure..
esp. in the business world where change takes a couple years..(some businesses now movin to XP.. some stickin with win2000 )

and new computer users, they more or less stay with what comes with the PC for a while

worldwide firefox just crackin 10%.  IE usage still around 85%

[Nephilim]

speakin of IE i have my suspicions* on why they not let out a patch yet, (wanting people to use IE 7), anyone try to install IE7 yet?  just like with WindowsDefender it telling you take it in your bum-c (just tried to install on my dad's system)

*- i just ask my sister how to spell that and she had this to say; "i really don't know how to spell that but i think it wrong, lol

[disciple]

lol. .well. nah, i doh think they go want to push people towards a beta product yet..
thas more headache than anything..
unless they goin the google route, and makin beta ' cool'
( like gmail)

i eh check, but by now they should have had a patch out... anyone know this for sure?

[Czar]

i eh check, but by now they should have had a patch out... anyone know this for sure?

Can't say for sure if they pushed out a hotfix for it, but patch Tuesday comes up in 3 days, so one way or the other it'll be out soon.

[Jdcrys_Shinkuu]

Microsoft only lets u upgrade via IE series...