Hold Onto Your Hats

[Madmanmcp]

h_tp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1941507,00.asp

 

h_tp://secunia.com/advisories/18680/

 

Microsoft Confirms 'Highly Critical' IE Hole

[j2k4b]

Hole in IE? Is this something new? LoL

[TCH-Rob]

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

[Madmanmcp]

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!

[TCH-JimE]

Hello,

 

Another good reason to use Firfox or any of the many other browsers out there

 

JimE

[j2k4b]

I uninstalled and removed any signs of IE a couple years ago. I am a proud user of Opera.

[jayson]

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.

[Deverill]

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).

[TCH-Thomas]

Don´t know if it´s any truth in this but...

 

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/03/22/1817258.shtml

[Madmanmcp]

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.

[DWD]

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!"