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Latest IE Hole Lets Gopher Root You
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""
here: Gopher hole.
...I can only imagine how someone found this one.
However dangerous this hole may be, there are a few reasons why it probably won't create an end of the world scenario, most imporatant of these that gopher is absolutly archaic. I personally havn't seen a gopher server since 1996 (at MIT).
Second, as always, Microsoft will have a patch out fairly quickly, which is more that can be said for mozilla half of the time...
*Ducks and covers due to flying penguins*
Linux is dead.
LU
I must admit, I find Slashdot more useful for supporting my Windows users than my Linux users. For Windows, we get up-to-the minute bug alerts - sometimes faster than the mailing list I'm on (non-MS), for Linux we get... point oh minor build releases of kernels.
Whoopee doo... what a great site :o( Does this not go to show that in actual fact, Linux users are a bunch of boring geeks that get stroppy with people who are different and think that by reading other people's 'interesting' stories make them interesting too? This isn't true, but that's the impression I get.
No, that's actually about spot-on.
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
NeXTMail/MIME Mail welcome
geeez... 7 downmods from all my past posts. Go editors!
I hope they plug this Gopher hole real fast.
Hmmm... Two headlines I saw immediately on going to /. today:
;))
One about a company releasing a report indicating that Open Source software is inherently insecure.
Another about a new security hole in IE (Thank god I use Konqueror
Now we need the good PR people at Microsoft to release the source code to Internet Explorer and IIS so that they can prove their first point...
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
This vulnerability is a bigger problem than you may think. For more information, see this article.
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I suppose it depends how you word the link...
this will be clicked more than most.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Riiiiggghhht... and replace it with what? The bulshit known as Netscape Navigator 6/7 or the bullshit known as Mozilla? either way, to stop using IE is as serious a downgrade as replacing Windows with penguin-shit.