New Critical Windows/IE Flaw

[MidnightCowboy]

Microsoft have released details of yet another exploit affecting users of IE.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12325139

It's only affecting around 900 million people so not so bad then

Windows is vulnerable enough as it is. With most attacks coming from browser exploits in some form or another, it only makes sense to use a browser other than IE.

I've felt for some time that MS needs to re-develop the IE engine from the ground up and drop support for Active X. Even if they did though, I tend to think that we would still be seeing vulnerabilities being exploited as we do now.

There are several browsers that are safer than IE right now, obviously, although some people either don't realize this or they don't care. Hypothetically speaking, if Firefox was the most used browser in the world instead of IE, then it wouldn't surprise me at all if FF vulnerabilities surfaced with about the same frequency as IE vulnerabilities do now.

[wdhpr]

Originally by JohnnyDollar
I've felt for some time that MS needs to re-develop the IE engine from the ground up and drop support for Active X. Even if they did though, I tend to think that we would still be seeing vulnerabilities being exploited as we do now.

Unfortunately MC highlights yet another critical security flaw with IE and Windows in general. I maintain Widows needs to wrap its latest build in C-4 and press the enter button and start over. Since thats not going to happen. Microsoft should slip into some comfortable worn-in jeans and sandals and jump on the open-source peace train.

Here's an interesting article (yea somebody thought of this before me)
Why Microsoft should open-source Internet Explorer
The sooner the better in my view.

Well got to get back to playing my Windows game using Wine on my Linux OS

Wdhpr

[The_Blode]

Thank God I use Firefox!

Blode.

[Taurus]

Originally Posted by JohnnyDollar

Hypothetically speaking, if Firefox was the most used browser in the world instead of IE, then it wouldn't surprise me at all if FF vulnerabilities surfaced with about the same frequency as IE vulnerabilities do now.

Mozilla has a tendency to address vulnerabilities in Firefox faster that Microsoft does with IE. At least that's the impression that I get.

I do agree JD that IE needs to be redesigned from the ground up. But then we'd just have another browser like FF or Opera or Chrome...lol..it's a long list these days. I mean surfing the web with IE on an administrative account.....well, we all know what that leads to.

[Concerned User]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...y/2501696.mspx


Everything from XP to 7 seems to be affected

I use IE only when I feel really, really bored and that too, I go only to the windows update site.


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01...ws_vuln_fixit/

Internet Explorer is the only attack vector for the vulnerability, which resides in the Windows implementation of the MHTML protocol.

[eyeb]

all this from microsoft's insistance on trying to make IE part of window's core lol

[Taurus]

Yeah, you'd think MS would wake up and pull IE out of the core?