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Zone-Spoofing Fixed for IE 7 Home Users

Posted by Zonk on from the i-can-sleep-better-tonight dept.

BeanBunny writes "The IE 7 dev team has essentially removed the intranet zone for Home users, resulting in a Web browser that is effectively invulnerable to a zone-spoofing attack. This security feature does not exist, however, on any installation that is part of a managed network. It also does not exist if you manually change the permissions on your Internet zone. However, in Windows Vista, both zones will be run in a 'protected mode,' something that allegedly prevents the invisible installation of code."

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  1. So . . . by Hey+Pope+Felcher+.+. · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everybody will be safe and secure, except of course for every single business in the known world?

  2. Re:First by tradiuz · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must have zone spoofed your way in.

  3. Remove the Internet Zone too by 4D6963 · · Score: 5, Funny
    They should also remove the Internet Zone too. if they do so, they'll have the most unvulnurable browser in the world.

    No browser is safer that IE if you prevent it from accessing a network!

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  4. Re:In related news by Scarletdown · · Score: 2, Funny
    Microsoft is coming out with another version of it's popular XP operating system that is the most secure OS to date claims Balmer


    I thought they already did this years ago...

    http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/screencams/mscement2.gi f

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  5. Re:Vista is taking a page from *nix by I'm+Don+Giovanni · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

    Yep. Just look at Linux.

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