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Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered
An anonymous reader writes "Several flaws have been uncovered by security firm eEye in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The flaws allow remote compromise of computers running Windows Operating Systems and affect IE, Outlook and possibly other MS software. With the next MS Windows security bulletin release scheduled for June 14, 2005 news sources are reporting that in comparison with the Mozilla Foundation's prompt fix for the recently reported Mozilla 1.0.3 vulnerabilities MS appear to be leaving a large window for the possible malicious exploitation of these flaws."
The larger window for malicious attacks to come out for IE in an attempt to take the spotlight off all of the Firefox exploits lately. While true, its transparent.
"Oh, no MS releases too many secuirty patches making my job as an admin hard, what a bunch of A-holes"
- later that day -
"*Stoopid* MS is going to take a month to release a security patch, what a bunch of A-holes. Firefox ROX#$%^&!"
As I said in another thread today:
Finally, a good use for all those nasty used tampons.
Funny - Mozilla / Firefox actually DID comprimise computers through malicious acts.
These accusations against Microsoft's vulnerability has YET to happen. Hmm.
I wonder who funds the eeye foundation? Ahh yes, that's right. Mozilla. What a coincidence.
I would, but version 1.0.4 is so full of bugs, that it doesn't even launch on most of our business machines. In fact, I had to take several hours yesterday to remove Firefox from all of our machines, and re-enable IE. We'll try Firefox again in about 6 months, after they've got it working again. But this was a major blow to their credibility (at least in my eyes as a business owner). They released a product, quite simply, without testing it. Check out the Firefox message boards. They're *filled* with big nasty bugs. But as far as security goes, it's *great* now! There's no Internet access whatsoever, making it 100% secure!
I don't respond to AC's.
With every release, FF gets bigger and bigger, and is not noticeably faster than IE. And, it has atrocious memory management. Your biased comment is not based on facts.
Second, FireFox will still be more standards-based as MS as already said they don't want to support the latest CSS version.
This is complete rumor. As yet, Microsoft has not made a committed response to this question. By the way, which version of CSS does FF support? What's the "latest" version? Hmmmm.
Third, FireFox is still OSS and that will matter to everybody to whom it DOES matter.
Which is really not that many as far as web surfers go.
By end of 2005, I still suspect FF will have been downloaded at least 100 million times and have 8-15% of the browser market - which is remarkable when you consider that Netscape, Opera and the rest only achieved 3% of the market over the last five years.
8 to 10% seems to be a ceiling. I predict it will not go much higher, if at all.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
IE only starts faster because MS preloads it into memory at startup.
Bullshit. Just bullshit. Please provide some proof of this. When IE is not running, I certainly do not see IEXPLORE.EXE in my process list.