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New Internet Explorer Security Hole

After the constant discoveries of holes and Microsoft's refusal to admit there are holes in IE, I ask: Why do people keep using Internet Explorer? I don't get it.

Read for yourself:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04...HNiehole_1.html

Demo of hole:

http://secunia.com/Internet_Explore..._Spoofing_Test/


Yup, anyone can pretty much spoof a file type, let you think its a .pdf .html or whatever when it's actually a .exe and boom you got a nice chance for viruses to get in. GO IE!!

Stop using that crap browser and save me some time wasted on useless tech-support calls!

does this only affect IE? cause im using mozilla right now

i just don't download anything and I am fine.

know your enemy.

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Originally posted by Shudder does this only affect IE? cause im using mozilla right now

Mozilla is unaffected. It knows how to open files properly.

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Originally posted by loconet Mozilla is unaffected. It knows how to open files properly.

lol. you make IE sound retarded.

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Originally posted by Shudder lol. you make IE sound retarded.

It doesn't need my help

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Originally posted by Shudder lol. you make IE sound retarded.

That's because it is.

Either way, Mozilla is a lot easier to use anyhow. The inbuilt google search bar (Much smaller than the official google bar), the tabled browsing, the popup blocker, the list just goes on.

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Originally posted by arctic That's because it is. Either way, Mozilla is a lot easier to use anyhow. The inbuilt google search bar (Much smaller than the official google bar), the tabled browsing, the popup blocker, the list just goes on.

and IE _is_ retarded

That's it, I'm switching to Opera permanently. Just wish I didn't have all this trouble with animation when using it...

my opera is broken, doesnt like the www.tranceaddict.com bit

so i gotta do tranceaddict.com

either way ie is pure bollocks.

Re: New Internet Explorer Security Hole

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Originally posted by loconet After the constant discoveries of holes and Microsoft's refusal to admit there are holes in IE, I ask: Why do people keep using Internet Explorer? I don't get it.

as someone still on IE I'll try explaining

Basically, i know fuck all about alternative browsers, whether every site will load with them, are they free, are they worth switching to etc

someone help me

isn't IE the fastest browser since it's integrated into XP?

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Originally posted by ShadoWolf isn't IE the fastest browser since it's integrated into XP?

I use win 98 anyway

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Originally posted by ShadoWolf isn't IE the fastest browser since it's integrated into XP?

Not all of us use XP

Re: Re: New Internet Explorer Security Hole

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Originally posted by Ian^ as someone still on IE I'll try explaining Basically, i know fuck all about alternative browsers, whether every site will load with them, are they free, are they worth switching to etc someone help me

try out this one:

http://www.mozilla.org


Why use this instead of IE? check this out:

http://www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/arts/reasons.html

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Originally posted by ShadoWolf isn't IE the fastest browser since it's integrated into XP?

That has absolutley nothing to do with it.

Ian, go to mozilla.org and download Mozilla Firebird. The regular Mozilla is bloated with other stuff that you don't need, firebird is your best bet.

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Originally posted by arctic That has absolutley nothing to do with it. Ian, go to mozilla.org and download Mozilla Firebird. The regular Mozilla is bloated with other stuff that you don't need, firebird is your best bet.

ok mate ta, if anything goes wrong, you owe me a diet coke

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Originally posted by Ian^ ok mate ta, if anything goes wrong, you owe me a diet coke

I can't affoard a diet coke.

BTW, make sure you get Firebird, it's easy to get the regular Mozilla and not realize it (which is exactly what I did at first). It's also got quite a few decent themes/skins, and it's got hundreds of extentions (IE - Plugins) that really do improve it.

And as a follow up, here is what Microsoft recommends their customers to do to avoid problems with the spoofed url bugs in IE:


http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...%5Bln%5D;833786

From the article:

"The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER. "


Ohhh, so that's the problem! Links!!, We should be typing them manually, we shouldn't be clicking them ! I knew there was something I was doing wrong, Duh!, stupid me.


How can someone write this crap?

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Originally posted by arctic That has absolutley nothing to do with it. Ian, go to mozilla.org and download Mozilla Firebird. The regular Mozilla is bloated with other stuff that you don't need, firebird is your best bet.

Well although the regular mozilla might be bloated, there's always custom install
It's true there are a few things that you may not need but i have to say i prefer mozilla to firebird, although i do have both browsers on here

Either ways, so long as it's not IE, it's all good

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Originally posted by loconet And as a follow up, here is what Microsoft recommends their customers to do to avoid problems with the spoofed url bugs in IE: http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...%5Bln%5D;833786 From the article: "The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the Address bar, and then press ENTER. "

That's possibly the most hilarious piece of crap i've read coming from microsoft so far. I sincerely hope this is some sort of early (very early) april fool's joke or something
Who the fuck is going to type a link?! Yeah... most users aren't going to read that, and if they do (which i doubt) they probably wouldn't do it anyways.

I downloaded Mozilla Firebird today. Overall, I'm impressed. Only two issues:

-IE loads 1 second quicker. But once you have the program open, Firebird is much faster than IE

-I hate having to readjust the font size

-I want all windows to open as tabs


Thanks for the tip!

Ok I decided to take you guys advice and try Mozilla, although IE has neva bothered me! BTW is there any way to get rid of IE if you are using XP?
Cheers!

Not that i know of

I tried getting rid of it on 2k but its impossible. Best thing you can do is just remove all the shortcuts to it and only use the cmd line if you should have to bring it up...

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-I want all windows to open as tabs

Well as far as i know, for tabs, you can download the mouse gestures plugin which will open links as tabs when you move your mouse upwards while clicking on the link.

You can get those here

*edit*

i forgot, if you don't want to download the gestures, which i recommend you do anyways because it's pretty useful, you can always right click the link and choose "open as tab"

the only reason i decided tho use mozilla firebird was just because my IE was dumb and decided to stop working on me. i never liked it anyway to begin with. too many pop ups.

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