Fulthrotl
~Autocorrect is My Worst Enema.~
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this showed up in my inbox this morning.... i use google chrome
as a browser, but for the rest of you......
randy
> The major press outlets are abuzz this morning with news of a major new
> security flaw that affects all versions of Internet Explorer from IE5
> to the latest beta of IE8. The attack has serious and far-reaching
> ramifications -- and they're not just theoretical attacks. In fact, the
> flaw is already in wide use as a tool to steal online game passwords,
> with some 10,000 websites infected with the code needed to take
> advantage of the hole in IE.
>
> Virtually all security experts (as well as myself) are counseling users
> to switch to any other web browser -- none of the others are affected,
> including Firefox, Chrome, and Opera -- at least for the time being,
> though Microsoft has stubbornly said it "cannot recommend people switch
> due to this one flaw." Microsoft adds that it is working on a fix but
> has offered no ETA on when that might happen.
as a browser, but for the rest of you......
randy
> The major press outlets are abuzz this morning with news of a major new
> security flaw that affects all versions of Internet Explorer from IE5
> to the latest beta of IE8. The attack has serious and far-reaching
> ramifications -- and they're not just theoretical attacks. In fact, the
> flaw is already in wide use as a tool to steal online game passwords,
> with some 10,000 websites infected with the code needed to take
> advantage of the hole in IE.
>
> Virtually all security experts (as well as myself) are counseling users
> to switch to any other web browser -- none of the others are affected,
> including Firefox, Chrome, and Opera -- at least for the time being,
> though Microsoft has stubbornly said it "cannot recommend people switch
> due to this one flaw." Microsoft adds that it is working on a fix but
> has offered no ETA on when that might happen.
