MS Issues Emergency IE Security Update

WrongSizeGlass writes "CNET is reporting that Microsoft has issued an emergency patch for 10 IE security holes. 'The cumulative update, which Microsoft announced on Monday, resolves nine privately reported flaws and one that was publicly disclosed. ... Software affected by the cumulative update addressing all the IE vulnerabilities includes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008, Vista, and Windows 7.'"

Re:Better links here:

[Ron Bennett]

Firefox is nice and is my default browser, but not much better than IE8 when it comes to security vulnerabilities.

For example, many feel Firefox is so much more secure than IE8 and yet why is that pop-unders (not the same as pop-ups, which FF does a good job blocking) from the likes of Netflix, even after years of complaints, still hasn't been addressed?

Surely, if unwanted pop-unders can slip through in Firefox, likely so can other unwanted things. Despite being an open-source program, I'm surprised there's still no built-in defense against pop-unders in Firefox. Yes, I know there's Adblock, but that comes with a bunch of overhead and, from what I've read, doesn't always block pop-unders either. End of rant.

Re:Better links here:

[Smooth and Shiny]

There is AdBlock for Chrome as well. Seems to work fine on this end.

Re:Emergency Patches?

[mrsurb]

If only /. were populated by people using a minority operating system that had comprehensive package managers to take care of their updates.