DID you read the user guide that came with your edition of Microsoft internet explorer? Donytl bnother. Just use your time to install Firefox:
If the average computer user read the Microsoft security advisory about the Internet Explorer vulnerability - and you’d struggle to find it if you weren’t looking - you might be none the wiser about how serious this was, or what action you should take.
Microsoft Internet Explorer logoA long way down comes this line: “An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user.” As far as I understand it, that means there is a real danger that Internet Explorer 7 users (and possibly users of other versions of IE) could be opening the door to cyber criminals to allow them to ransack the contents of your hard drive. In other words, it is a pretty serious situation.
Bill Gates is at number 43… below his lawyer…
Posted: 16th, December 2008 | In: Tech Focus, Technology Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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December 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Firefox has had vulnerabilities too, some severe and recent. Difference is, with Firefox’s many plug-ins like Adblock Plus, NoScript, etc. installed you’re less likely to have malicious code load in from a web page during the time it takes Mozilla to fix them. I used to love Bell Labs’ Naviscope when I had to use IE, but it hasn’t been updated for years, so now IE only gets fired up to update Windows.
December 17th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Eventually I feel that we are going to see some true tech wars between google and microsoft. If Microsoft was smart they would allow a plugin similar to firefox’s ad blocker plus that would block google ads. if all IE users installed this, google would go bankrupted within a matter of months. 95% of google’s revenue comes from the Adwords advertising, and IE represents over 80% of browsers.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
and along with the bugger outside in his car and his laptop…good thing I’m encrypted, oh bugger I’m going back to smoke signals and bonfires I don’t care about the Clean Air act