Microsoft To Ship Emergency IE Patch 187
Grotendo writes "Microsoft plans to release an emergency patch for Internet Explorer very soon to counter targeted attacks and the publication of exploit code for a 'browse and you're owned' vulnerability in its flagship Web browser. The out-of-band update will be released once the company is satisfied that it has been properly tested against all affected versions of Windows. This could happen as early as this weekend." Microsoft has downplayed the seriousness of the IE zero-day, and insisted that it affects only IE6 even as security researchers close in on exploits for IE7 and IE8. Microsoft has had no comment about the firestorm that Google unleashed by directly accusing the Chinese of cyber espionage. ShadowServer has up a sobering post on the massive extent of the problem of "groups that can be referred to as the Advanced Persistent Threat."
I have the patch details: (Score:5, Funny)
Bravo Microsoft!
Re:Enough is enough! (Score:5, Funny)
Why not just exploit their browser's security flaws and wipe their hard drive?
That way they learn their lesson about safe browsing the old fashioned way.
The IE Patch (Score:5, Funny)
Do you find yourself mysteriously waking up in a back alley more than once a week?
Do you find empty HTML pages littering your desktop and you have no idea where they came from?
Do you discover new directories on your computer?
Get the IE Patch!
It comes in 4 strengths so you can be gradually weaned from the habit.
Week 1. IE 6 Patch. Internet cravings are pretty intense the first week so the IE 6 Patch is there to help you learn how to just say "NO".
Week 2. IE 7 Patch. It's easier to avoid launching IE. You still need to check Amazon or e-Bay from time to time but the edge has been honed down a bit.
Week 3. IE 8 Patch. You find it a lot easier to avoid clicking on the 'e' although you still lapse when you aren't thinking.
Week 4. Firefox. You've mastered the addiction. You're free to browse the Internet worry free. Even looking at the 'e' makes you nauseous.
Congratulations on taking the first step to breaking the IE addiction.
[John]
Re:Enough is enough! (Score:5, Funny)
Pro
Cons
Counter proposal: have you tried carpet bombing a small third world country today?
Re:I have the patch details: (Score:3, Funny)
It also sets the DNS to itself and caches anything you might have had saved in your browser history.
That way, you still seemingly visit the same sites you always do, just they never get updated, and you are completely secure from everything on the net!
Re:Enough is enough! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Enough is enough! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, an Opera website says it's widely used on in the former Yugoslavia!
Tell you what: Find some market share data not on an Opera website and we can talk.
What's really funny is, if you click on the first link in the story on the Opera website, do you know what it links to? (wait for it...)
That's right, the first link in the Opera article about how they have more users than Chrome links to the market share data that I sited above, which shows Chrome at more than twice Opera's market share.
In fact, the story that the Opera story links to breaks out the market share for Opera Mini (0.53%), which, if you add it to the market share for Opera (2.43%) still comes to considerably less than Chrome's 4.63%. And those are December numbers. If you look at more recent numbers (see the link in my comment above) Chrome's lead is bigger.
Maybe it's possible to have more users and still less market share, but it's more probably that Opera is being a little bit, um, exuberant in their analysis of the statistics. It wouldn't be the first time that a company painted an extra-rosy picture of the facts.
So that's what it takes to get a patch out, MS? (Score:4, Funny)
At least two governments officially stating to avoid IE, others in fear, every single web developer on the country hating you, Google getting hacked, and every security expert on the planet laughing at you?
Wow. Just wow.
May I extrapolate from that, what it would take, to get a real Bugzilla for IE and make it follow recent standards?
My guess: Inter-dimensional time war with Lovecraft’s the old ones, lead by Cthulhu, fighting the Shrike and its army, armed with gamma ray bursts and black holes, using giant stars as ammunition.
On the other hand: That would be awesome!