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Latest IE Hole Lets Gopher Root You

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

rvaniwaa writes "Another hole in internet explorer has been discovered. This hole allows a hacker to root a user's computer whenever the user clicks on a gopher link. All versions of IE are affected and a Microsoft spokesman stated that the company is "moving forward on the investigation with all due speed""

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  1. WE NEED MORE CHICKS ON THIS SITE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't you think open source software would be more popular if it were advocated by girls like this instead of old guys with beards? What we need are more free software babes like her. This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. If we do have to have the old guys with beards, we could at least make sure they are plenty of hot chicks too. I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she make you hard? I know this little hottie floats my boat!

    Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

    1. Re:WE NEED MORE CHICKS ON THIS SITE! by hatrisc · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      yeah.. to bad my girlfriend isn't into opensource, or computers... then again, would i really want al l you guys gawking at her?? and then trying to grep her digits or something similar...

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  2. are there still any gpher severs out there? by g0hare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I haven't seen one in ages 1st post too

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  3. !!!GO USA!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Are we going to have the best soccer teams now also?

    I almost feel sorry for the rest of the world, we are kicking their ass in every political, social, education, and economic category..

    and now we are schooling them in their own sports? BAHAHAH!

    Whats left, world rugby and cricket champions?

    GO USA!

    1. Re:!!!GO USA!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Evidently, you do not kick ass in the brain department.

      You won one game of football. In my 1986 World Cup sticker book, you were relegated to a half page - each sticker had 2 players on it. You were that bad. You will continue to be bad too, because in football, when you get cocky like you, you tend to lose and feel like crap afterwards.

      Although as a young footballing nation, you wouldn't know about that, would you? And rugby? You'd need padding mate, or you'd cry!

    2. Re:!!!GO USA!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      WTF is this?

    3. Re:!!!GO USA!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Your epidermis is showing!
      Ha Ha!

    4. Re:!!!GO USA!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      thats the UK by the way, I think you'll find we invented the computer

      I think that you'll fine that one of your homosexual subjects (not "citizen", but "subject") invented the computer, and you persecuted the hell out of him and tortured him with "medical treatments" to the point that you drove him to suicide. What a fine reward that was for his contributions to both the war effort and academia.

    5. Re:!!!GO USA!!! by elefantstn · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      Although as a young footballing nation, you wouldn't know about that, would you?


      Do you remember the last time the US and England met in a World Cup? USA 1:0 England. Have fun watching us in the second round. You're going home early.
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  4. whoa! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp!

    1. Re:whoa! by hatrisc · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      hmm.. as if first post! wasn't short enough, it's not fp! hehe.. i love slashdot

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  5. Thank God by Wind_Walker · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm just happy that it doesn't crash the browser when you click on a Dancing Hampsters.

  6. Re:Too damn obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You mean like Richard Gere? No wait.. that was a hamster.

  7. Re:yet another reason... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get stuffed.

  8. More importantly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Its beers, not beer.

  9. YAFOS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You Are Full Of Shit

    Sincerely, Mike Bouma

  10. The UK Is Currently the Seventh Largest Economy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ...so how come a country the size of you smallest state is the fourth largest economy (thats the UK by the way, I think you'll find we invented the computer)

    According to this, we're all about to be overtaken by China and India. Just four years ago, Russia, France and the UK would have been in the top five. Thanks to corporate outsourcing, we're all training the Indians how to take over our jobs when we're cut from the payroll in the next few years!

  11. Only good varment poontang... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is dead varment poontang

  12. Re:And we all know by TheDick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn being in the 3rd grade when this stuff was actually useful.

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  13. Re:My thoughts: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hey, kids, you too can be a powerful critic!
    1. Find a message board where a diversity of opinions (but in the same galaxy) are expressed
    2. Attribute all the opinions on that list to some sort of entity -- not an individual, maybe, but a definable entity which bloody well ought to be internally consistent or fair etc.
    3. Criticize that entity as lacking fairness, consistency, etc.
  14. Re:Other remedy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that is MPD, kiss our ass dicklick

  15. Re:Official Bugtraq Post by PunchMonkey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Woohoo! My first karma whore post. Mom would be so proud.

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  16. Re:Yay I'M SAFE! by mithras+the+prophet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, but it's not such an accomplishment to learn to spell 'ftp', is it?

    "Uh, wait, pronounce it again? efteepee? Howz that spelled?"
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  17. You're just jealous... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...that you didn't get there first!

  18. Karma Whoring?!? My Fucking Karma went down... by Robber+Baron · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    after I posted this! Was 50, now it's 49! Yet another victim of slashdot fuzzy math!

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  19. solution to pop-ups by SethJohnson · · Score: 2, Offtopic


    Mozilla >> Preferences >> Advanced >>Scripts > uncheck "open unrequested windows"

    solved. this is the equivalent to the end scene in caddyshack where bill murray blows up all the gophers with C4. The only difference is that the golf course remains intact.
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