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4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the are-you-ready-for-fun-and-excitement dept.

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."

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  1. surprise by birdwax2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  2. The /. Pool by CommanderData · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:The /. Pool by Zak3056 · · Score: 5, Funny

      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!

      <game show music>

      But that's not all, Funkdid! Bob Barker is also going to come to your house and personally neuter your dog! Actual retail price of Bob neutering your dog, $129.99!

      </game show music>

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    2. Re:The /. Pool by funkdid · · Score: 5, Funny
      Awesome! hahahha

      If only it was announced tomorrow, I would have won both showcases!!!!!!

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  3. Breaking News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A spokesman for Microsoft said, "These are the last 4, we swear!"

  4. Oh, for god's sake! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm switching to Lynx.

  5. Re:At what point... by slash-tard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Im just glad I use AOL to get my interweb.

  6. Re:"Trusted Computing" by The-Bus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well at least it's nice of the virus/exploit writers to find flaws now as opposed to during its official release in August...

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  7. Internal MS Memo by ccoder · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  8. Re:Black Tuesday? wth? by Synesthesiatic · · Score: 5, Funny

    When all the sysadmins start jumping out of windows, you'll understand.

  9. Re:At what point... by Grey+Ninja · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, we know for sure at this point that ActiveX works. And the code for creating popups is working quite nicely. Of course, there is the odd time that when autoinstalling some ActiveX controls to autospawn more popups, and creating some more popups at the same time, it can go into an infinite loop and crash, but on the whole, it works quite nicely. =)

  10. Is it just me? by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or does the very name of IE sound like a scream?

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  11. Re:Black Tuesday? wth? by chris_mahan · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are no windows in the basement.

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  12. Re:Black Tuesday? wth? by hoggoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    > I think blacktuesday has something to do with a stock market crash back in the day. 1987 maybe? I am not sure.

    "back in the day" ... "1987" ...
    God I feel old...

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  13. Re:Solution: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Naturally, the only thing that can distract screeching Slashbots from frothing over a new Windows vulnerability is the rare presence of a girl.

    Boy, MS' spin control just gets more clever by the day...

  14. Re:At what point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    At what point do we have /. change the IE topic icon to have bugs crawling all over it and eating holes?

  15. In Other News... by lukateake · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's Tuesday.

  16. Re:At what point... by BobLenon · · Score: 5, Funny

    In terms of software engineering, IE has proved to be quite the extensible piece of software. Look at how many people are out there developing "addons" with little trouble ;)

    That and they are so easy to install.

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