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More than 200 Web sites -- many of them belonging to legitimate businesses -- have been hacked and seeded with code that tries to take advantage of a unpatched security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to install hostile code on Windows computers when users merely visit the sites.
me, I quite computers a long time ago. Way to many hackers and viruses out there. I just use a abacus and a few birds that I learned to talk to a while ago. Nobody has hacked my system yet. Yes, my system is open source.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Microsoft Confirms IE Under Attack
By Mary Jo Foley
That unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer that we told you about earlier in the week? It's already being exploited by hackers who are using hijacked Web servers and compromised Web sites to launch a wave of attacks against Microsoft browser users. The exploited servers and sites are dropping a variant of SDbot, which is a family of backdoors which provide hackers with total access to infected computers. Microsoft says the impact is limited so far. But security experts aren't so sure the attacks won't spread like wildfire.
Updated: Microsoft confirms a wave of drive-by downloads targeting a zero-day browser vulnerability and says Internet Explorer users can expect a patch on April 11, if not sooner.
What happened with "this forums if for helping people, not bashing technologies you don't like"? Oh, I get it. Bashing microsoft helps people to feel better about themselves. Never mind then.
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Get ELinks. Now. That's an order. I mean, command... line browser. Do not dissapoint the command line community.
More than 200 Web sites -- many of them belonging to legitimate businesses -- have been hacked and seeded with code that tries to take advantage of a unpatched security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to install hostile code on Windows computers when users merely visit the sites.
Have had my share of nasty experiences with IE. Now I use it only to cross-test my development projects to make sure they render somewhat like what I want them to (there are standards for a reason, Microsoft). Anyhow, IE and Opera are my test browsers. Firefox is my production browser. Not too many problems with this set up .
I don't find Microsoft evil. The problem lies with the evil people that actually buy (or use) their products because they indicate that Microsoft isn't that bad after all.
As soon as people stop buying their products even a company like Microsoft will change it's policy and if it doesn't it will disappear from the market (in this case it might take a while though).
Gambler wrote:What happened with "this forums if for helping people, not bashing technologies you don't like"? Oh, I get it. Bashing microsoft helps people to feel better about themselves. Never mind then.
Gambler is dead on. This isn't a forum for bashing - and I'm the easily the first to get in line to bash Microsoft.
"Microsoft is evil" is a whole seperate topic, and as Jcart said..
Jcart wrote:We've been down this road, and it is an ugly one..
We've consistently chosen not to do that. Lets continue to be consistent in that choice. Stay on topic, and talk about the exploit itself (and fixes/workarounds), or do not reply, please.
In the meantime, two unofficial patches are available to address the IE issue: