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Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click
spacehug writes "In a recent Microsoft Knowledge Base article, they provide 'Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks.' These steps include always using SSL/TLS, typing 'JScript commands' in the address bar, and typing in URLs instead of clicking links! I have a suggestion that's not in the Knowledge Base: don't use IE!"
i always knew that those hyperlinks were a bad security problem. Web designer should really avoid those propietary 'href'-tags for security reasons.
I have a suggestion that's not in the Knowledge Base: don't use IE!
Yeah, and I have a solution to prevent malicious programs like IE from running that's not in the Knowledge Base...
Install Linux.
I hear you can buy a copy of it for around $600 somewhere.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
I say go one step further for ultimate security and telnet to port 80.
Why risk using the Web at all? Just e-mail the webmaster and ask him to fax the webpages to you!
These sigs are more interesting tha
Damn, if only you could have clicked the "reply" link instead of having to type the URL in in manually for security reasons, you could have gotten first post. Curse you, IE!
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
In other news M$ advices all online banking users to walk in to their nearest bank office to secure their online banking...
"okay, instead of patching our crap that you paid for, just don't use these featrues. That's right, they're bugs, not features! But we won't patch them for numerous unspecified reasons."
"By the way, you knew it wouldnt be anywhere near secure when you bought it. Remember lovebug? eh? Oh, we're better than linux/bsd/unix/sunos/macos for numerous unspecified reasons."
--an open letter from MS (well, at least they could have the courtesy to tell us directly they're ridiculous)
*sigh* we're all screwed.
Eight-hundred-thirty-three-thousand-seven-hundred- eighty-six Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks
Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click
So now MS is promoting a return to command line interfaces?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; %5Bln%5D;833786
Need I say more?
I stole this Sig
Is that the long way of saying "just use Mozilla" ?
And to think, that enough people got MikeRoweSoft.com confused with microsoft.com to warrant a security bulletin.
"Protect yourself from email worms by walking to the post office!"
"Protect yourself from p2p worms by buying your music on 8-track tape!"
"Protect yourself from joe-jobs by not using your hotmail address!"
"Protect yourself from internet credit card theft by using dollar bills exclusively!"
"Protect yourself from e-banking snoopers by keeping your savings under the mattress!"
"Protect yourself from spam by disconnecting the internet!"
"For Christ's sake, protect yourself from illegal operations by turning off your computer NOW!
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Can I have my karma now?
...corrupting our bodily fluids. I first realized that, Mandrake, during the act of love. Small and flabby. It has to be micro soft!
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Why do I have a chill running down my spine about a new patent concerning "Zero click navigating"
-ph
To go back to an often used analogy, if Microsoft were a car company and their vehicles happened to exhibit a problem with the engines catching on fire (as happens, sometimes, with real car manufacturers) other makers would recall and fix the problem.
:P
Not microsoft!
They're innovative. They'd send a helpful sheet out to owners:
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Things you can do to protect yourself from an engine fire:
The most effective step you can take to protect yourself from an engine fire caused by the known defect, is pushing your car manually. By pushing your car manually, you can avoid creating the temperatures required to initiate combustion. This will keep your car safe. Also, you can save fuel and contribute to a cleaner environment.
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So what's next then? ....Write your emails in outlook, then print them and mail them in an envelope, all the benefits of outlook with the added security of Physical Delivery (tm)*(new improved feature, Microsoft patent pending).
Goatse trolls on Slashdot taught me not to click hyperlinks LONG before they became a security issue!
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
So they're not going to fix the spoofed URL bug then? Well, I guess a KB page is cheaper than paying developers to figure it out!
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Microsoft Coperation today advised users to upgrade their current Internet Explorer web browsers to Carrier Pigeon 1.0. This newly released software package transferes HTML documents safely and securly over the friendly skies.
NOTE: Microsoft is not responsible for packet loss during hunting season, unless it's wabbit season but definatly not duck season!
I know I should probebly read the advisory, but I use mozilla. So how would it help?
~~ Behold the flying cow with a rail gun! ~~
Where we go "cool, nice features" they... don't.
The other thing is, they always, with unwavering precision and frightening speed, manage to find the pages that it doesn't render properly.
gah, normal people.
the other thing is, that MS have succeeding frighteningly well in making their applications and icons synonymous with the tasks they perform in the minds of so many people. it's been said before, but that blue 'e' sort of IS the internet to so many people, like that 'w' IS the word processor. gah again. sorry for the lack of capital letters in this post.
lolThis is my Sig, this is my Gun. One is for Slashdot and one is for Fun.
Also, if you have any reason to suspect the authenticity of a site, leave it by closing the browser window immediately.
.... ahhheee CTRL-ALT-DEL..... *pant* ..... holding in the power switch now.........*blink*..... man that was too close, I almost got slashdotted....
ahhheee.... CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK They are going to get me... ALT-F4 ALT-F4
How on EARTH did someone write this KB article without cracking up. Are they for real or what?
We'll find out next fall on an all-new FOX Reality Miniseries: "The Simple Life: Redmond".
(What? Didn't you notice that the KB is suppose to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1, when used with Anal Wiener Buggers?)
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
And don't forget pushing the car will also give you some well needed exercise..
--- If the bible proves the existence of God, then Superman comics prove the existence of Superman.
Also, you can save fuel and contribute to a cleaner environment.
Pushing your car can also cause unburnt fuel to poison the catalytic converter, and pollute the atmosphere with hydrocarbons. In certain situations, the unburnt fuel in the exhaust pipe may explode, possibly taking out the muffler, catalytic converter etc. with it. If this occurs, you should report the problem to your fuel supplier and/or exhaust manufacturer.
If you're roommate is that unwilling to change browsers when other people suggest, perhaps he's be willing to upgrade when "Microsoft" tells him to.
I've sent that page to a few people now, and the responses are pretty amusing. It redirects IE users to a spoofed MS Update page for Internet Explorer that offers Mozilla for download as the "update" for IE.
I can see Microsoft telling British Telecom:
"We're not paying you any license fees, we'll just have our users MANUALLY TYPE THE URLS"
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If you're roommate is that unwilling to change browsers when other people suggest, perhaps he's be willing to upgrade when "Microsoft" tells him to.
Just one question... how does it change the location in the address bar from (http://zcat.wired.net.nz/upgrade/) to (http://msie.microsoft.com)? Yes, I'm using IE.
You want a sig? I can get you a sig... Hell, I can get you a sig by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.
My hands cramped up about halfway through typing http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; %5Bln%5D;833786 . :)
We've discovered a security problem where computers that receive tcp/ip packets are vulernable to various attacks.
To protect yourself from these attacks, plese type each tcp/ip packet by hand into your editor, print them out and mail them to their destination. When the reply arrives, please type them in by hand to ensure no malicious trojans sneak their way into your tcp/ip stack.
"The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them."
OK, great - but how do I tell the malicious hyperlinks from the benign ones?
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