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Microsoft Issues Workaround For IE 0-Day

Posted by timothy on from the we-call-these-o'houlihan-patches dept.

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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  1. MS advice on how to patch a IE zero-day vulnerabil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Click

  2. Re:doublepost? by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    It may be that the same thing is mentioned twice in a very short summary of the story, but that the same thing is mentioned twice in a very short summary of the story does obfuscate the lack of content. That is why the same thing is mentioned twice in a very short summary of the story. Why else would it be that the same thing is mentioned twice in a very short summary of the story?

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  3. Load Firefox? by jfdavis668 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The work around is load firefox or chrome.

  4. Workaround is stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?

    1. Re:Workaround is stupid by Robert+Zenz · · Score: 5, Informative

      Fun fact: Forbidding ActiveX and similar things in Internet Explorer yields interesting site effects, f.e. that Visual Studio can't display error messages or the Help anymore.

  5. Re:Tired of the IE hate... by NatasRevol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The question is why you need to manage a browser so much.

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  6. Re:Tired of the IE hate... by LordLimecat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Chrome can be deployed by MSI and managed by GPO. They have the ADM templates right on their site.