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Drew Black
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Posted - Jun 28 2004 : 9:22AM
Article

By John Oates
Published Monday 28th June 2004 11:50 GMT
US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed.

A statement on the CERT site said: "There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites." CERT otherwise recommends users to set security settings to high and disable

Malicious code, dubbed variously as "Scob" or "Download.Ject", originally posted last week on a Russian website, could be downloaded secretly onto websites using Microsoft's Internet Information Server 5.0. The code could then be used to log keystrokes made by visitors to the site - so long as they used Internet Explorer as their browser. Information, including passwords, was then to be emailed to the criminals behind the atack.

Microsoft said that it was unaware of widespread consumer impact and noted that the Russian site had been taken offline. It said some enterprise users of Windows 2000 Server, specifically users running IIS 5.0, were being targeted by "Download.Ject". According to MS, this is not a trojan or worm but "a targeted manual attack by individuals or entities towards a specific server". It said users should use a firewall, ensure they have the latest software updates and use anti-virus software.

Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman, called on users to switch on auto-update so that patches would spread faster. Speaking to Reuters in Australia at the weekend, he vowed to "guarantee that the average time to fix will come down. The thing we have to do is not only get these patches done very quickly...we also have to convince people to turn on auto-update."®

Hardware All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jun 29 2004 : 4:09PM
First he has to convince us that MS patches no longer break our systems.
daviangel
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Posted - Jun 29 2004 : 5:49PM
Not to mention if it's fixed in winxp sp2 what else are they hiding from us?
The fact that XP's SP2 would have fixed this problem is nice to know, but it really doesn't help us much today. To be honest, I'm a little miffed at the fact that Microsoft was familiar enough with these issues to address them in a service pack beta, yet no patch was made available for our production systems
Evil_Rip
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Posted - Jun 30 2004 : 2:17AM
Well so what's the replacement going to be then?
Ditch IE..

Well name the alternative that will be good for us..

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Posted - Jun 30 2004 : 5:40AM
Well, for alternatives, how about Mozilla, Firefox or Opera?
And don't forget Pornzilla, the choice for pervs :-)

Jacco

Mod: Edited to fix the link to Firefox (they didn't like the capital "F" at the beginning of firefox)

Edited by - Bill on 7/1/2004 1:02:15 AM

 
Loraine
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Posted - Jun 30 2004 : 6:25AM
Hey Drew thanks for posting the story. I use IE and I should be laughing at this but you know I clicked the Mozilla link above because I've been thinking of changing over and it promptly froze my machine. Restarted, tried to post, same thing, this is the third attempt...tell me Bill Gates doesn't have tabs on IE defectors?

Edited by - Loraine on 6/30/2004 6:29:09 AM

MLyons
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Posted - Jun 30 2004 : 8:54AM
I recently switched to Firefox. It was a long time in coming, but I finally did it.
Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jun 30 2004 : 6:50PM
What's the difference between the $39 version of Opera and the free version?
Jacco All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jun 30 2004 : 6:53PM
The free version has advertisements next to the toolbar.

Jacco

vincevega
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Posted - Jun 30 2004 : 8:25PM
Try firefox before paying for Opera. I think it's great and use it 95% of the time.
Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jul 1 2004 : 1:00AM
I think I agree. I downloaded and installed both of them and took an immediate liking to Firefox.

I also installed Thunderbird. Now if I can just get my Outlook mailboxes to import into T-bird, I'd be set. The import process keeps locking up and crashing.

Joey Starr
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Posted - Jul 2 2004 : 6:50PM
I use Safari (Apple) and I would recommend it to Mac OS X users, it's very fast and very stable. A big improvement over the Mac version of explorer which crashed frequently, tried Opera for Mac, OK and fast but I still prefer Safari.
Frigo
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Posted - Jul 5 2004 : 5:06AM
I am also switching more and more to Mozilla. For emails I use TheBat !

Edited by - frigo on 7/6/2004 9:00:33 AM




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