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Microsoft Issues Workaround For IE 0-Day
Orome1 writes "Microsoft has issued a security advisory with advice on how to patch a Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability recently spotted being exploited in the wild by attackers that might be the same ones that are behind the Nitro attacks. News that there is a previously unknown Internet Explorer vulnerability that is actively being misused in the wild by attackers that are believed to be the same ones that are behind the Nitro attacks has reverberated all over the Internet yesterday."
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The work around is load firefox or chrome.
What does this even mean? Is it the same 0-day? Is it a different 0-day? Can we get some editing up in this bitch or what?
There's so many it doesn't really matter. They'll be another next month, and the month after that, and the month after that.... You can safely assume that at any given instant there exists at least one active zero-day infecting IE users.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Disable ActiveX and then demand it runs to "Prompt" in both Internet AND Intranet????? This is NOT a "work-around." A work-around would be how to allow our users to continue running without being prompted to run or not run things they don't understand and don't want to.
Or install an alternate browser.
Sheesh, is the Internet really worth this crap? Really?
Seriously, I don't use IE at home but until Chrome, Firefox, or Opera have tight integration and customization that can be centralled managed (GPO) IE will be the defacto standard browser for a lot of businesses. As an IT Manager I have tried repeatedly to move to a different browser and the tools to manage them just aren't there.
"Hahaha those losers use IE, they suck they should just switch to chrome" are not helpful comments and show just how little you know about the many current business environments. Your beloved Chrome and Firefox, by their actions, don't want to be the default browsers in business. They just don't. That leaves us with IE which, despite these 0 days and standards issues, is superios in every way in a Windows comprate environment. Until that changes IE will be what many businesses use because browser management is just so easy it's automagic.
And those Linux folks, switching to Linux isn't helpful either until some sort of same tier GPO management alternative that has simple interpoability is available. We could actually drop Windows and go full linux if I could gain the control I get from a Windows environment.
Disclaimer: I use Firefox, Opera, Ubuntu, and Mint at home.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2757760
Linking from "Microsoft issued an advisory" to submitter's site is kinda lowbrow.