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Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE

Posted by timothy on from the you-saw-this-coming dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As expected, Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security patch to address a remote code execution hole in Internet Explorer that was used in the recent Chinese attacks disclosed by Google. Ars Technica has all the download links you need."

4 of 142 comments (clear)

  1. WTF! FORCED SHUTDOWN by indi0144 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It will force shutdown even if you don't check the box at the end of the installer. How can this be so wrong at so many levels.

  2. Re:Google has BACKED DOWN in China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually they haven't removed censorship yet. They would be talking with the Chinese government about a way to provide an uncensored search within the law.

    "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."

    A new approach to China

    So, we're still on hold as to if they will remove censorship.

  3. Re:Google has BACKED DOWN in China by phantomcircuit · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looks pretty un-censored to me. images:tiananmen square

  4. Re:Quick turnaround! by aztracker1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apparently some of the bugs were reported to MS back in September. So it really wasn't *that* fast.

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    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1.info