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4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities
TopherTG writes "Buckle your seat belts folks. On what is looking to be the next Black Tuesday, with rumors of 9 new Windows security patches being released, Secunia is reporting on 4 new vulnerabilities in IE that allow for arbitrary code execution and placing content over other windows. Combined with the new Windows patches, it is likely more Download.Ject and Sasser like viruses will be emerging in the coming months."
At what point do we need to shift the focus here and start posting slashdot stories when they find some code in IE that actually works?
surprise, surprise...all i want to know is why you need 9 patches for 4 holes. maybe the first patch fixes 1 and creates 5 more?
Sorry Funkdid, your bet of Wednesday for the next IE exploit was incorrect. However according to Price is Right rules your bet is the closest without going over, so you win!
Your prize today is 9 shiny new windows patches! And a new car!
Urge to post... fading... fading... RISING!... fading... fading... gone.
A spokesman for Microsoft said, "These are the last 4, we swear!"
I'm switching to Lynx.
From what I hear, it's when Microsoft release patches. Many Patches. In one day. Imagine rushing around, trying to patch all of your computers. *THAT* is Black Tuesday.
Well at least it's nice of the virus/exploit writers to find flaws now as opposed to during its official release in August...
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
Been reading Snow Crash again, have we?
Dear Staff,
IE has a vew unsolved vulnerabilities to say the least. Download the latest version of Firefox or Mozilla from http://www.mozilla.org/.
Thanks,
Bill G
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" -- George Orwell
When all the sysadmins start jumping out of windows, you'll understand.
So everybody should just run out and upgrade to Win XP? (And install SP2 even though it hasn't been released yet?)
News Alert: Microsoft forces users to upgrade to Windows XP by releasing viruses/worms that only target earlier versions of Windows and IE.
Or does the very name of IE sound like a scream?
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
naah....that'll just push back the release date of some exploits until september...
Your right. "moot" was what I was going for, "mute" came out.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
There are no windows in the basement.
"Piter, too, is dead."
Buy from "Honest" Bill.
Nearly original operating systems loved by hackers everywhere at LOW LOW prices!
Trust Bill! The "Gates Guarentee" will ensure your OS against absolutly nothing for NO EXTRA COST!
"Fair Play" Bill also GIVING AWAY a range of pre-hacked browsers at low lwo prices.
Old COBOL programmers never die. They just code in C.
Because IE is tightly integrated into Windows, so that would mean that Symantec etc.. would be classifying Windows as a ... oh wait, good idea!
Decode these
> I think blacktuesday has something to do with a stock market crash back in the day. 1987 maybe? I am not sure.
... "1987" ...
"back in the day"
God I feel old...
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
Boy, MS' spin control just gets more clever by the day...
Dangit, just one day before, and my band could have had a slashdotting. I couldda been a contenda.
Just set a box of Windows XP out in the field, and the worms keep rolling in. They stopped for a moment and we were afraid we would have to go back to the old method of using shovels and a bucket. But, like magic, they kept coming and coming.
All hail the Quizatz Hadderach!
Then redirect them to http://www.mozilla.org after 10 seconds.
Liberty you never use is liberty you lose.
Remember when 2000 was supposed to be the most secure ever? Then XP? Now it's Longhorn. I didn't believe them then and I don't believe them now.
I feel sorry for the poor Windows poopies. Paying big bucks to get porked like a cheap prom date. And not so much a kiss from Billy boy.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
*ducks*
Error 404 - Sig Not Found
That is so ironic it almost defies belief.
:)
Considering that msn.com is Microsoft.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
No don't tell all of your friends to switch. I like using a virus free browser. If eveyone switched then there would be viruses written for firefox!
As an IE user, I was going to respond to this with proof that Firefox is just as bad as IE. Then I realized that I have no idea how to use Firefox in place of internet explorer because it appears to be some sort of shipping company. Also, my fingers are tired from writing this post so I'm just going to stop.
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
I did. One of my friends took some serious effort - Next time I spoke to him I asked him how FireFox was going:
"It was wrecking my head so I went back"
Me: "Don't come crying to me when the Russian mafia have your credit card numbers!"
I think he's gone back to the fox...
It's Tuesday.
It would be cool if my remote control had a moot button... But what would it do?
I guess it would be pointless, really.
it's kinda like MAC users saying how the MAC is so secure because all of the viruses are windows viruses...well, that's because no one bothers to write a virus for MACs...
I dunno, it seems like everybody on slashdot, (maybe even the whole Internet!) is using MAC addresses, and I can't remember the last time someone wrote a virus for them.
This comment was thought up very late at night and does not necessarily reflect my views at a more reasonable hour.
I'd say running Internet Explorer is more like pulling your pants down and screaming "rape me" in the middle of the exercise yard of a maximum security prison.
Some of what I say is fact, some is conjecture, the rest I'm just blowing out my ass...you guess.
It seems like somebody was jelous of a certain other browsers bug now weren't they?
I stole this Sig
Her nails.
Telnet over port 80.
>More like Microsoft's human resources problem of hiring people from good colleges who lack real programming experience.
Didn't get the MS summer job either, huh?
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
On occasion I am forced to run the mac version of IE, how many of these exploits actually affect the mac version(which is rather old at this point)?
Insecure, but a more enjoyable user experience?
A day in the life of MSIE
And bill spoke and I went into a nightmare
I heard the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in IE, Microsoft
And though the holes were rather critical
They had to count them all
Not they know how many holes it takes
To fill the Windows XP SP2.
I'd love to turn bill off.
I say we just switch to Lynx and forget about all these vulnerabilities!
Doh, guess I'll just have to switch to ascii porn!
I'm a fan of Microsoft. I like most of their products. I make a living off their development tools and platforms. I'm incredibly happy with Windows 2003 Server. I typically defend Microsoft whenever I get the chance.
translation:
"Kick Me".
dork.
I swear, why didn't anyone else think of it before...
<email>
With the recent AOL and Intel merger, that you've all got an e-mail about before, I'm sure, both AOL and Intel (hereby refered to as Antel), have issued several warnings about your web browser, Internet Explorer.
With Bill Gates tracking all of these e-mails, he's been able to prove that there's about 96% of the world (that has a computer) using Internet Explorer. However, for the first time, Bill Gates may be wrong!
There have been several recent attacks against Internet Explorer, and these are not limited to:
If you click a link in your e-mail, IT MAY ERASE YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER!
Just by opening up a webpage, without your knowledge, IE could install several harmful programs that read your e-mail and send your credit card number, name, and all other personal information to hackers across the internet!
Because of these possibilites, Antel has issued several warnings to stay away from Internet Explorer, and instead use Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera.
Now go spread the word to all of your friends!!one1!
Prove the power of e-mail! Forward this to everyone in your address book asap!
IF YOU DO, ANTEL WILL REWARD YOU WITH A $20 ANTEL GIFT CERTIFICATE!
</email>
Pretend that something especially witty is here. Thanks.
I'm starting to feel sorry for IE. Everyone's picking on it. It does have some nice features: