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."
IE is only good at one thing... (Score:3, Insightful)
And that is running Windows Update and it isn't that good at doing that....
Re:IE is only good at one thing... (Score:3, Insightful)
All I know is that three certain windows updates have been drilled into my Vista boot process for ever. Did someone really intentionally program an update process so that if it failed it would just try again?
No Opera, and external resources? Oi. (Score:1, Insightful)
Funny - that site's little code examples don't include Opera as one of the modern browser options. What's the author got against the big o?
Also.. adjust the code so it pulls all its data from your local server; there's no need for that site to know who your visitors are, and there's no need for your page to load any more slowly due to external connections than is absolutely necessary.
Re:Quoth the TFA (Score:2, Insightful)
Yep, and it's almost wrong to be asking Microsoft to patch something as old as IE6 or XP at this point. Maybe OS licenses should say "You may use this program for 5 years." instead of perpetually because you're a danger to other people's systems when you don't update to modern software.
Maybe not, but when you work at a hospital in the IT department and your patient critical applications are still relying on IE6 because the vendor who wrote it sucks and can't figure out how to make it work with an updated browser, you appreciate that Microsoft, however insistant they are on dropping that old clunker of an app, is at least trying to resolve it.
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Re:IE is only good at one thing... (Score:3, Insightful)