Internet Explorer security alert

helmutcheese · 16 Dec 2008 at 19:19

WOW, admitting to Flame Baiting and Trolling. :rolleyes:

Mattus · 16 Dec 2008 at 19:24

helmutcheese said:
WOW, admitting to Flame Baiting and Trolling.

If you can't tell the difference between trolling and encouraging a healthy debate which is backed up by factual evidence rather than 'FF is tosh', I don't really think there's much hope of us getting any proof that IE is just as fast as Fx, do you?

I'm not a Firefox fanboy. I don't care whether people use Firefox, Opera, Safari or Chrome. I've used and been impressed with them all. All of them are fast, standards-compliant browsers.

Tute · 16 Dec 2008 at 19:37

In all fairness, the Firefox users do lurk ready for these kinds of threads.

My problem with it all is that the BBC seem to have blown it all out of proportion.

It only happens if you visit certain sites, and certain code gets run, and you have your PC set up in a certain way. It's no worse than any other IE (or FF/Chrome/Safari) bug.

helmutcheese · 16 Dec 2008 at 20:39

Mattus said:
If you can't tell the difference between trolling and encouraging a healthy debate which is backed up by factual evidence rather than 'FF is tosh', I don't really think there's much hope of us getting any proof that IE is just as fast as Fx, do you?

I'm not a Firefox fanboy. I don't care whether people use Firefox, Opera, Safari or Chrome. I've used and been impressed with them all. All of them are fast, standards-compliant browsers.

This is not a IE v FF Debate Thread, get over it and move on.

Kalpsn2000 · 16 Dec 2008 at 20:55

Off topic but how do you increase the scroll speed (or number of lines) in Firefox?

tolien · 16 Dec 2008 at 21:02

Tweaking mousewheel.withnokey.numlines should do it, but it's really a system setting.

bubblebobble · 16 Dec 2008 at 21:04

I am running IE8 beta on Vista 64, am i at risk?......I would imagine that would be the case as Iam sure IE8 shares a lot if not all the code of IE7.
I actually like Opera....then there was netscape who got all gobbled up

Mattus · 16 Dec 2008 at 21:11

bubblebobble said:
I am running IE8 beta on Vista 64, am i at risk?......I would imagine that would be the case as Iam sure IE8 shares a lot if not all the code of IE7.

Yep. The MS advisory says that IE8 beta2 is affected.

helmutcheese said:
This is not a IE v FF Debate Thread, get over it and move on.

Kindly scroll up and answer me this question. Which of us mentioned Firefox first in this thread?

a) me
b) you

Kalpsn2000 · 16 Dec 2008 at 21:22

tolien said:
Tweaking mousewheel.withnokey.numlines should do it, but it's really a system setting.

The reason i'm asking this is becuase i'm used to IE and its more sensitive on there.

helmutcheese · 16 Dec 2008 at 21:22

Mentioned it 1st, neither.

Jon1818 · 16 Dec 2008 at 21:24

Moley said:
All browsers are a load of old tosh, I'm de-install the interweb and going back to CIX on dialup... thems were the days.

Lol 1 kbps EPIC ness

tolien · 16 Dec 2008 at 22:01

Kalpsn2000 said:
The reason i'm asking this is becuase i'm used to IE and its more sensitive on there.

That setting should do it then.

Snakedoctor · 17 Dec 2008 at 11:03

Microsoft plans quick fix for IE

Microsoft is to due to issue a patch to fix a security flaw believed to have affected as many as 10,000 websites.

The emergency patch should be available from 6pm GMT on 17 December Microsoft has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7787445.stm

dan^uk · 17 Dec 2008 at 18:22

Microsoft have posted the fix. Download: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-078.mspx

helmutcheese · 17 Dec 2008 at 18:30

Its on WU, now.

dirtydog · 17 Dec 2008 at 18:37

Argh.

I don't even use IE7 but I got the update anyway. It then prompts me to restart the computer for it to take effect.

helmutcheese · 17 Dec 2008 at 18:38

Postpone it 4 hours if you need to.

dirtydog · 17 Dec 2008 at 18:40

I've installed it now, so Windows will keep nagging me to restart. (I leave my machine on 24/7 so restarts are annoying.)

helmutcheese · 17 Dec 2008 at 18:46

Your a home user, there is no need for 24/7 and never rebooting (I have heard it all before so don't tell me it has to be).

A reboot is good for a PC.

Be thankful MS are at least fixing an issue instead of ignoring it.

howthe · 18 Dec 2008 at 09:04

helmutcheese said:
If you do not use IE then WTF are you all bothered about, don't even need read/Troll this thread or post total TOSH about FF which is a POS.

http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html

To be fair, your the one who turned this thread into a childish arguement!

OT: Is the MS link posted the actual fix or just a temp fix?