Internet Explorer security alert

slowrunner said:
WU downloaded it for me within 5 mins of starting my rig up today, installed it, not been asked to reboot.
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I think it will only ask you to reboot if a program is using mshtml.dll, which is Internet Explorer's Trident rendering engine. Plenty of programs use it, such as: Outlook, HTML Help, Steam, MSN Messenger, Windows Media Player, Limewire and a whole lot more.

Most people who say they don't use Internet Explorer, actually use the Trident rendering engine via other applications - they just don't realise it.
 
Well at least it's fixed now. Personally i like IE7. I tried FF and hated it. There were also 8 fixes for FF yesterday, 3 of which were critical, so it's far from secure.
 
pastymuncher said:
There were also 8 fixes for FF yesterday, 3 of which were critical, so it's far from secure.
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The difference is that Mozilla was pre-emptively fixing bugs discovered by security researchers before any websites exploited them, whilst the flaw in IE was already being taken advantage of by at least 10,000 websites.
 
bledd. said:
install firefox http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0.4&os=win&lang=en-GB
install adblock plus (click this link in firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
once you've restarted to install adblock plus, click here abp://subscribe/?location=http://ea...ement+easylist.txt&title=EasyElement+EasyList

that'll stop any ads showing up, and you'll now have nice clean browsing

never use IE again.
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Thanks for the tip, Bledd. There is also the flashblock tool for firefox. It's very useful.
 
Mattus said:
The difference is that Mozilla was pre-emptively fixing bugs discovered by security researchers before any websites exploited them, whilst the flaw in IE was already being taken advantage of by at least 10,000 websites.
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I wonder why...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Internet Explorer (71.11%)
Mozilla Firefox (20.06%)
Safari (6.62%)
Opera (0.75%)
Netscape (0.46%)
Google Chrome (0.74%)
Other (0.24%)

(Q4 2008 to date)

Browser flaws aren't commonly exploited in firefox (or other browsers apart from IE) because it's not a time effective process, not because the exploits are any less severe...
 
I have a small project website that's on free hosting 000webhost.com and it was hacked by some chinese nutcases over the weekend, basically installing this exploit everyone is going on about at the moment. It did only show up in IE7
 
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