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Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/11/2010 10:05:46 AM   
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No fix for it yet.


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RE: Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/12/2010 10:32:41 AM   
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RE: Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/12/2010 10:36:16 AM   
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As of today, a total of 50 vulnerabilities reported to Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, and Oracle, remain unpatched.


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RE: Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/12/2010 11:30:27 AM   
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As of today, a total of 50 vulnerabilities reported to Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, and Oracle, remain unpatched.



Not to mention the number of vulnerabilities that are being worked on at this time on any number of various open source operating systems and behind-the-scenes networking components.

Networked computers have never been completely free of vulnerabilities and security holes. I doubt they ever will or can be. It boils down to the individual sitting at the keyboard or multi-touch interface to make some decisions about how safely they wish to traverse the digital domain. In order to be able to make sound decisions, they need to care enough about this stuff and read up on what the vulnerabilities are and how to use any available workarounds there may be at the time.

Bottom line... the internet is not a completely safe place to be. Either you're good with that or you're not, and if you're not, you shouldn't be online reading this.

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RE: Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/12/2010 11:31:28 AM   
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Ah, what does that say in English?


Ditch Microsoft.

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RE: Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/12/2010 12:08:08 PM   
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Ah, what does that say in English?
Use Firefox.


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RE: Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/12/2010 12:12:16 PM   
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there is always a way to find soemthing bad about everything

nice for fanboys

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/

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RE: Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/12/2010 12:21:32 PM   
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http://secunia.com/advisories/38608/

there is always a way to find soemthing bad about everything

nice for fanboys

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/
And that's the difference.  Mozilla give me a list of known security vunerablities...


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RE: Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/12/2010 12:23:27 PM   
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and what do you do then?
read it..and??

you forget ..that most are unknown before reported ;)

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RE: Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/12/2010 12:24:41 PM   
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http://secunia.com/advisories/38608/


Here's a helpful link taken from the discussions of the article quoted. It sheds some light on how to provide more protection to your PC. Again, it's not 100% effective at stopping everything as there is always something new on the horizon, but it does provide another layer of safety to those who are willing to deploy these strategies.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/how-to-secure-your-pc.php


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RE: Internet explorer vulnerability - 3/12/2010 12:29:27 PM   
Justme696


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microsoft reports about them messing things up :P

But lets be honost..how many know how to use these weaknesses.


Mostly, with what ever browser, it is the user that activates the wrong things.

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