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Sasser Worm Disruption Growing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thanks-again-microsoft dept.

thebra writes "Yet another virus is causing problems with Internet Explorer. "Sasser, unlike a virus which travels through e-mails and attachments, spreads directly from the internet."A removal tool can be found here."

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  1. No-one should use IE, ever... by tiger99 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    That is the simple answer. It is a rotten, outdated, bug-infested and insecure piece of trash which was only cobbled together in a hurry to trash Netscape and has now been abandoned (i.e. Sir Bill has lost interest....)

    Why does anyone anywhere still use it? And why do grossly incompetent web designers still make sites that only work properly in IE? (Likely they are the same bunch of no-hopers who also use small fixed-size fonts so those of us with high-res screens and IE can't read the text.... Funnily enough, Mozilla has a text zoom for such situations, IE only zooms non-fixed text! No doubt they also use feeble tools like Frontpage.)

    We have, very predictably, been hit very badly today at work, the IT Dept are blissfully unaware of the issues which reliance on the combination of trash products of the Convicted Monopolist, and the unreliable anti-virus protection of McAFraud can cause. Cost of cleanup today, maybe 5000. Cost of issuing everyone with Mozilla and IEradicator, zero. But will they do it?

    Think of the amount that would be saved if governments passed laws forbidding the use of IE or Lookout, or if shareholders held company directors responsible for the losses due to their incompetence in allowing use of such junk.