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Another Serious MSIE Hole

Posted by timothy on from the why-my-dad-gets-no-tech-support dept.

pjrc writes "Infoworld is reporting another new security hole that allows links to executable files to appear to be any other type of file, such as text or pdf. When combined with a previously reported spoofing bug, that Microsoft still hasn't fixed, Infoworld claims the result could be 'devastating'"

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  1. Uhh.. NO. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Another reason to use Mozilla, maybe.

  2. 12 voluns. in GAIM by eddy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    IE? Nobody here use IE :-P. I think these problems with GAIM is more of a concern for the slashdot readership.

    I hear they've been fixed in debian. (no link, so you better check for yourself)

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  3. Patches Don't matter if... by ooby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I've got 70 MB on the partition that has Windows, and plenty of space elsewhere, I should be able to patch, right? Just install IE on another partition. Turns out IE wants to install only on _that_ partition. As a result, I'm stuck with IE 4.

  4. Re:all this talk of holes by Mateito · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Easy, just do a google image search for "anal stretching" and see what horrible pictures you turn up. (Note: Amazingly... at least at the hour I write this... that is actually a work safe link. Poor girl.)

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