Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click 984
spacehug writes "In a recent Microsoft Knowledge Base article, they provide 'Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks.' These steps include always using SSL/TLS, typing 'JScript commands' in the address bar, and typing in URLs instead of clicking links! I have a suggestion that's not in the Knowledge Base: don't use IE!"
i knew it (Score:5, Funny)
Hah! (Score:5, Funny)
I have a suggestion that's not in the Knowledge Base: don't use IE!
Yeah, and I have a solution to prevent malicious programs like IE from running that's not in the Knowledge Base...
Install Linux.
I hear you can buy a copy of it for around $600 somewhere [sco.com].
Why go half way? (Score:5, Funny)
Better solution (Score:5, Funny)
Re:fpfpfp (Score:5, Funny)
In other news: secure banking (Score:5, Funny)
riight (Score:1, Funny)
"By the way, you knew it wouldnt be anywhere near secure when you bought it. Remember lovebug? eh? Oh, we're better than linux/bsd/unix/sunos/macos for numerous unspecified reasons."
--an open letter from MS (well, at least they could have the courtesy to tell us directly they're ridiculous)
*sigh* we're all screwed.
uhh? (Score:4, Funny)
Eight-hundred-thirty-three-thousand-seven-hundred- eighty-six Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks
Re:Better solution (Score:5, Funny)
CLIE? (Score:5, Funny)
So now MS is promoting a return to command line interfaces?
Re:Better solution (Score:5, Funny)
I followed Microsoft's advice and typed in your address but all I got was the MSN search engine telling me that the domain "fax the webpages" doesn't exist.
Ahh sweet sweet irony (Score:5, Funny)
Need I say more?
Re:i knew it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Internet Explorer should offer... (Score:5, Funny)
Are you out there Mike Rowe? (Score:2, Funny)
What's next? (Score:5, Funny)
"Protect yourself from email worms by walking to the post office!"
"Protect yourself from p2p worms by buying your music on 8-track tape!"
"Protect yourself from joe-jobs by not using your hotmail address!"
"Protect yourself from internet credit card theft by using dollar bills exclusively!"
"Protect yourself from e-banking snoopers by keeping your savings under the mattress!"
"Protect yourself from spam by disconnecting the internet!"
"For Christ's sake, protect yourself from illegal operations by turning off your computer NOW!
(Oops, this one's not new.)
Use mozilla (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hah! (Score:5, Funny)
This is all a big ploy, by Microsoft, to prevent "their" customers clicking on links which might take them to competitors' products. Sneaky! It might even be patentable!
What'll they think of next?
Re:Easier way... (Score:1, Funny)
...corrupting our bodily fluids. I first realized that, Mandrake, during the act of love. Small and flabby. It has to be micro soft!
New patent coming... (Score:2, Funny)
-ph
Re:Why go half way? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hah! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hah! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:They can't be serious... (Score:5, Funny)
Not microsoft!
They're innovative. They'd send a helpful sheet out to owners:
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Things you can do to protect yourself from an engine fire:
The most effective step you can take to protect yourself from an engine fire caused by the known defect, is pushing your car manually. By pushing your car manually, you can avoid creating the temperatures required to initiate combustion. This will keep your car safe. Also, you can save fuel and contribute to a cleaner environment.
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One leap for man (in reverse)! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hah! (Score:5, Funny)
I haven't clicked links for YEARS! (Score:5, Funny)
No bugfix? (Score:3, Funny)
This just in... (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft Coperation today advised users to upgrade their current Internet Explorer web browsers to Carrier Pigeon 1.0. This newly released software package transferes HTML documents safely and securly over the friendly skies.
NOTE: Microsoft is not responsible for packet loss during hunting season, unless it's wabbit season but definatly not duck season!
I know I should probebly read the advisory, but I use mozilla. So how would it help?
normal people (Score:5, Funny)
Where we go "cool, nice features" they... don't.
The other thing is, they always, with unwavering precision and frightening speed, manage to find the pages that it doesn't render properly.
gah, normal people.
the other thing is, that MS have succeeding frighteningly well in making their applications and icons synonymous with the tasks they perform in the minds of so many people. it's been said before, but that blue 'e' sort of IS the internet to so many people, like that 'w' IS the word processor. gah again. sorry for the lack of capital letters in this post.
lolFirmly press the close button (Score:2, Funny)
ahhheee.... CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK They are going to get me... ALT-F4 ALT-F4
Re:They can't be serious... (Score:5, Funny)
We'll find out next fall on an all-new FOX Reality Miniseries: "The Simple Life: Redmond".
(What? Didn't you notice that the KB is suppose to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1, when used with Anal Wiener Buggers?)
Re:They can't be serious... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:They can't be serious... (Score:5, Funny)
Pushing your car can also cause unburnt fuel to poison the catalytic converter, and pollute the atmosphere with hydrocarbons. In certain situations, the unburnt fuel in the exhaust pipe may explode, possibly taking out the muffler, catalytic converter etc. with it. If this occurs, you should report the problem to your fuel supplier and/or exhaust manufacturer.
Re:I haven't clicked links for YEARS! (Score:2, Funny)
And Slashdot's link-parsing algorithm isn't flawless either.
Upgrade Path (Score:5, Funny)
I've sent that page to a few people now, and the responses are pretty amusing. It redirects IE users to a spoofed MS Update page for Internet Explorer that offers Mozilla for download as the "update" for IE.
Hyperlink Patent workaround? (Score:2, Funny)
I can see Microsoft telling British Telecom:
"We're not paying you any license fees, we'll just have our users MANUALLY TYPE THE URLS"
How does it spoof the address bar? (Score:2, Funny)
Just one question... how does it change the location in the address bar from (http://zcat.wired.net.nz/upgrade/) to (http://msie.microsoft.com)? Yes, I'm using IE.
Sorry it took me so long to reply to this... (Score:5, Funny)
Problem solved (Score:3, Funny)
To protect yourself from these attacks, plese type each tcp/ip packet by hand into your editor, print them out and mail them to their destination. When the reply arrives, please type them in by hand to ensure no malicious trojans sneak their way into your tcp/ip stack.
What cracked me up.... (Score:3, Funny)
OK, great - but how do I tell the malicious hyperlinks from the benign ones?
Type this URL three times (Score:3, Funny)