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New Attack Fells Internet Explorer

Posted by Soulskill on from the tricking-an-old-dog dept.

alphadogg writes "Attack code has been identified that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. The code was posted Friday to the Bugtraq mailing list by an unidentified hacker. According to security vendor Symantec, the code does not always work properly, but it could be used to install unauthorized software on a victim's computer."

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  1. A great reason to choose Firefox by simsodep · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is another story about JS loading with IE7 & IE8. According to 4 of my testers (and a test I did after using the same environment), it seems that we can't login to our site so dep using Internet Explorer 7 and 8, on Win XP (and maybe Vista, not tested). After validating the form, we are back to login page, without any error, but like we are unauthenticated. On the other hand, Firefox does its great job.