Madmanmcp Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 h_tp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1941507,00.asp h_tp://secunia.com/advisories/18680/ Microsoft Confirms 'Highly Critical' IE Hole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j2k4b Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Hole in IE? Is this something new? LoL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rob Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 What else is new. Sometimes I think I would be better off browsing with a colander, fewer holes, instead of this browser. Oh well, when work requires it then so be it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmanmcp Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 I would be better off browsing with a colander LOL And MS would fix the problem by selling you a metal one saying the plastic was the real problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-JimE Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Hello, Another good reason to use Firfox or any of the many other browsers out there JimE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j2k4b Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I uninstalled and removed any signs of IE a couple years ago. I am a proud user of Opera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayson Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I went to FF, and love it, wife tries to use IE and I tell about the security holes, so she uses FF then, I was going to upgrade to IE 7, but I now think I will not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deverill Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Unfortunately you can't totally remove IE. Click My Computer and in the Address bar put www.google.com and there you are. IMO, that's the problem with Windows - everything is so integrated that the web pages can access the OS through hooks and stuff. One bug and boom, your whole computer can be at their mercy. With compartmentalized apps there is no problem... in Unix the web browser can't take over the OS essentials unless something was done horribly wrong and probably on purpose to compromise that one system (like a hacked shell command or something). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Don´t know if it´s any truth in this but... http://slashdot.org/articles/06/03/22/1817258.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmanmcp Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 I thought it was part of the decision from the Justice Departments suit against MS, they had to separate the components. The verdict came out after XP hit the street so Vista is where you would see the browser separated from the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWD Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 First, IE is itself a hole. Second, this is not news. If a month went by without finding a critical flaw in IE, that would be news. If they are smart, tech news writers have a macro, ctrl+e, which types out: "Microsoft Confirms 'Highly Critical' IE Hole." Seriously, does a Microsoft meeting go something like this: Programmer: "Hey, I got a great new feature we can add to [fill in the blank]." Decision Maker: "Great, put it in." New Guy: "We don't really know how it will interact with all the other code." Decision Maker: "So...what's your point?" New Guy: "Well...you know...security and stuff." Decision Maker: "Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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