Zone-Spoofing Fixed for IE 7 Home Users

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."

Comments

So . . .

[Hey Pope Felcher . .]

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

Remove the Internet Zone too

[4D6963]

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!

Why do we need zones?

[Anonymous Coward]

I still fail to understand why IE needs zones at all. If the security settings were less complicated and more reasonable, this wouldn't be a problem. Instead of trusted/intranet/internet, etc... why not a 'whitelist' and 'blacklist.' Simple and easy. Zones are complicated and confusing for most users, and many people end up setting the internet zone to low security so they can access their favorite Java/Flash/JS/ActiveX-addled whiz-bang website anyway.

So we know that security will be covered in Vista

[mattyohe]

But where is the innovation?

I'll be honest, I haven't followed the Vista track that closely, but I have yet to hear of any evolutional or even revolutional features that I can look forward to. I read the slashdots and the diggs of the internet so, are these sources too Google and Apple happy to report on the Windows front? Or is there simply nothing to report?

Other than Metro and their attempts at making their OS work like Tiger, what is left?

Don't say security.

Always Trust Content From This Provider

[Nom du Keyboard]

Always trust content from this provider.

Everyone should know that checkbox well -- and leave it alone and unchecked.

But where is the Never trust content from this provider ever again checkbox? The one I want to check every time I go to a site (all seemingly signed by the same certificate provider) that tries to install the 24-hour Time Manager, or You Must Click Yes to View This Site's Content when all trying to do is get out of a site I hadn't wanted in the first place.

That's what I want my browser to offer me -- along with an inability for any web-site to affect my browser's basic functioning, like disabling the right mouse key. When is that patch coming?

Sadly, the slashdot crowd WANTS IE to be insecure

[I'm Don Giovanni]

All of the snide remarks in this thread indicate that most of you hate any improvement in IE for fear of losing some of your anti-M$ ammo. Deep down in your hearts, you WANT IE to be insecure, you WANT Windows to be insecure, you WANT Vista to bomb, just like you LOVED Win9x crashes. The fact is, Microsoft is addressing their security problems, just as they did their stability problems, and that scares you guys to death.

You lost your stability argument, and slowly but surely, you're losing your security argument (the last major security outbreak happened back in 2003, and things will only get worse for you in Vista, where the default accounts are non-admin). Face the facts that you're going to have to find another argument ("free, as in beer", I suspect).