Finland Issues IE 6 Warning

loconet writes "ZDNet UK reports that The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority have warned computer users against using Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 web browser as it has a serious security flaw that compromises computer systems. Microsoft has yet to announce when it will release a patch for the vulnerability, which does not affect XP SP2 users but does affect Windows 2000 users and XP SP1 users. The vulnerability was published at the beginning of November."

Comments

Preaching to the dumb

[aitio]

Changing your browser was FICORA's last option when dealing with BOFRA. Before were upgrading to SP2, updateing virus scanning and so on.

"#5 Erityisesti jos käytössäsi ei ole Windows XP -käyttöjärjestelmää tai XP:n Service Pack 2 -päivityksen asentaminen ei ole mahdollista, yhtenä tietoturvahaavoittuvuuden rajoitusmahdollisuutena on vaihtoehtoisen selainohjelman käyttäminen, kunnes haavoittuvuuteen on olemassa korjaava ohjelmistopäivitys."

Loosely translated: "If you are not using Windows XP, or installing SP2 is not possible, you can also use a different Internet-browser, until the vulnerability is patched."

This is still far from saying "DON'T USE IE, YOU MORONS!"

My own family was an example of how these suddle ways of trying to make people to care about computer security don't work.

Dad in the morning while reading the paper: " 'FICORA issues statement...' Why don't they stop rambling about the Internet and those viruses!"
Dad in the evening: "What the fu*k is wrong with the computer?"

This is funny:-)

[muditgarg]

Read this
Looks like Microsoft PR department has also heeded to the warning :-)