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Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE
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."
Rebooting to upgrade a browser is at least five levels of wrong!
...this does not apply to Mac users, because Mac's don't suffer from drive-by downloads and other malware. My PPC G5 running Safari on Snow Leopard is rock-solid and secure.
I take it you haven't heard the news? Granted, it's much more secure...but not secure.
People think that Mac's are expensive, but the safety and security alone are reasons to justify the high price. The sleek, advanced looks are just the icing on the cake.
Uh...OSX is what is safe and secure...not Apple hardware. Install OSX onto a hackintosh and it will be just as secure as your overpriced "icing". Macs ARE expensive, and the low-cost of upgrading to Snow Leopard just proves that you are paying far too much for hardware, not the software that it utilizes.
Come on. If you are gonna fanboy for a single system, at least get your facts straight.
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No it goes to show how fast MS can release a patch (and out of their normal cycle) when face with a large amount of negative PR. Normal vulnerabilities usually have to wait til Patch Tuesday. But when Google announces that IE was to blame in a large number of attacks, both France and Germany advises their citizens not to use IE for a while, MS better patch it sooner than later.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
It only proves my point. MS sat on the bugs for months and only released a patch after public disclosure by Google. How much longer would have they sat on them if it wasn't for the bad PR.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Removing IE is easy, its a wrapper GUI around a browser engine. Delete iexplore.exe, there you deleted IE.
The rendering engine is in a shared DLL thats used by just about everything now days, even if the app doesn't use the renderer directly, the built in help system is HTML based and uses the shared library for its renderer.
Its also used by HTML style dialogs, which are basically dialogs that use HTML to define the layout rather than the old style dialog resources.
This isn't really different from any other modern OS which uses HTML all over the place. I can't think of any modern desktop OS that doesn't have massive dependancies on an HTML renderer.
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No, what slashdot needs are editors: people who read and correct errors in written works prior to publication.
How much longer would have they sat on them if it wasn't for the bad PR.
Stupid question. Answer is of course "Forever!".
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?