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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. First Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


  2. Simpsons comment... etc... oblig.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Doh!

  3. Re:Black Tuesday? wth? by howardjp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    October 29th, 1929.

  4. Re:Black Tuesday? wth? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's the day the GNAA holds its meetings. /ducks

  5. Re:But - by SadPenguin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On the topic of [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags, me and my co-workers have adopted the messaging convention of |sarcastic remark goes here| to indicate sarcasm in text.
    Works for us, thought i'd spread the good word.

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    sigSEGV - doy!
  6. Re:Shocking! by gumpish · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shocked! I'm shocked, I tell you!

    This is why I browse with a -1 modifier to so-called "Funny" comments. /Not That Funny

  7. Re:Hmmm.... by rokzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    for all intensive purposes I could care less about the difference between "mute" and "moot" so try and impress someone else

  8. Re:Hmmm.... by the-matt-mobile · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your? Dontcha mean "you're"?

    Sorry, I couldn't resist :)

  9. Re:Solution: by Sepper · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what's a girl to do?? ;)

    Get a geeky Boyfriend to handle these issues for you.. There's plenty to go around

    As an added bonus, you can blame him if anything goes wrong EVEN if you are more geeky them him...

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    I live in Soviet Canuckistan you insensitive clod!
  10. Re:At what point... by ack154 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's ridiculous is your spelling, my good sir...

  11. Re:aaaaarrgggggggghhhhhhhhh......... by 0123456 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "What part of "well regulated" is so hard to understand?"

    I don't know. For some reason most anti-gun nutters seem to think it means 'government controlled'.

  12. MOD PARENT AS FUNNY! by anti-NAT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I like it :-)

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    The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
  13. Re:Solution: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what's a girl to do??

    me!