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Unpatched IE Flaw Extremely Critical
Durinthal writes "The biggest blip on the security radar over the Thanksgiving holiday was the realization by the security community that an Internet Explorer problem first identified six months ago was a lot worse than it appeared, as what appeared to be only a DoS vulnerability also allows for execution of arbitrary code. The realization caused Secunia to issue a rare 'Extremely Critical' advisory."
The biggest blip on the slashdot radar over the Thanksgiving holiday was the realization by the editorial community that a slow news problem first identified six months ago was a lot worse than it appeared, as what appeared to be only a short blip of news vulnerability now also allows for execution of arbitrary stories as portraid by Beatles Beatles. The realization caused CmdrTaco to issue a rare 'Extremely Dupical' advisory.
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
is "IE" the shortented version of the screaming sound that I make when I realize my machine has been compromized?
"iiiieeeeEEEEEEEEE!"
I'm really sick of my mac, nothing works right on here. Why wont it bring up my calculator!
Come on and listen to the music, people. No one uses DoS Internet Explorer. I'm afraid about it still existing!! I don't know why everyone doesn't just jump the band wagon and upgrade to KDE. Or at least Mozerella Firefox.
Linux has never had any security issues like this. Thats because whenever you buy Linux it has a built in firewall because Linux uses NAT and MAC authentication. However, this is something that M$ is unable to do and Apple is too dumb to do but since no one uses Apple's anyway, they never have to worry about security because no one would bother porting IE to the Apple or bother hacking it with such a small user base. I'm sorry, I'm okay, but please, this can't work, it won't work, it never has worked, and it will not work! Plain and simply stated. No one uses DoS Internet Explorer, er...Exploiter.
=Chad=
I like your ideas. Do you have a newsletter I can subcribe to?
I call dupe :)
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
Funny how so many of the responses in this thread mirror the response of someone who's just been exposed to Snow Crash: "weird - the screen just went all static-y. But I'm fine... aren't I???"
Ultra critical?
Heck, let's just get the UT4K announcer in on the action too, I can hear it now...
That's just Firefox crashing as it does normally, unrelated to this issue ;)
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
I tried checking my banks website from Firefox but I got "Sorry but you must use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later to access this site."
Rename calc.exe. Job done!
wuss
No, but I got an email from my bank stating that there is a problem with my account and they need my account info.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.