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Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability
It appears that the exploit in IE briefly mentioned a few days ago is causing a serious reaction: SteveAU writes "Microsoft has begun flooding media outlets with information advising users to switch to an alternate browser while a serious security flaw is being patched. The flaw, which affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, is manifested via malware and has infected over 6,000 sites thus far. Microsoft states: 'The vulnerability exists as an invalid pointer reference in the data-binding function of Internet Explorer. When data binding is enabled (which is the default state), it is possible under certain conditions for an object to be released without updating the array length, leaving the potential to access the deleted object's memory space. This can cause Internet Explorer to exit unexpectedly, in a state that is exploitable.'" According to the BBC report, though, Microsoft itself is only asking that users be "vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch"; it's outside experts who say to dump IE (at least for now).
Update: 12/16 21:11 GMT by KD : Microsoft will issue an emergency critical update for IE tomorrow.
Update: 12/16 21:11 GMT by KD : Microsoft will issue an emergency critical update for IE tomorrow.
Water still wet.
Pope still Catholic.
Yea but the ones that they support and frequently think it's a good idea to click on the 'Hit the target to get a free iPod' ad is a good idea.
I won one of these a few days ago. Just to let you know, they don't actually give you an iPod directly. Instead, they ask for your bank account information and deposit $250 (they say it's for tax purposes). I should be getting my money any day now!
My wife has just come over to me (she listens to Radio 1) and told me that I need to install another browser on all our machines.. I guess she has never noticed that we are a Ubuntu household!! At least the message is getting across to normal non techie users at the moment that IE is bad..
Obama performs stupid /. changelog tricks with Ubuntu!
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Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
This is to prevent unfit users from not using one of the other browsae.
for everyone's sake, I hope that's a fucking typo.
No it's not a typo, there are many wordae like that.
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