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Yet another Internet Explorer 0day
Posted on January 29th, 2011 at 13:21 2 commentsMicrosoft has released Security Advisory 2501696, describing yet another 0day flaw in Internet Explorer.
This time the problem lies in the way IE handles MHTML code. Apparently there’s a way for a sufficiently ornery Web page to run amok on your PC, if you’re browsing with Internet Explorer. No action on your part necessary; it’s a drive-by security hole.
You have two choices.
You can either run Microsoft’s Fixit, which sits in Knowledge Base article 2510696.
Or you can do what I’ve been begging you to do for almost a decade now. Use Firefox. Or Chrome. Or Safari. Or anything except Internet Explorer.
2 responses to “Yet another Internet Explorer 0day”
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Gerald January 30th, 2011 at 05:10
Have you ever heard of opera? It’s pretty secure, and it has some nice features.
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Hey Woody,
In Jamaican, we’d say “mi beg unno please!”
We had an issue with that Outlook Update screw up (I mentioned your post on it in one of my posts http://nontechietalk.blogspot.com/2011/01/tale-of-two-updates.html as part of my ongoing series covering my experiences playing with Ubuntu – follow tags accordingly) and now I just don’t even bother using Outlook at work (my boss still uses it, hey, it’s his shop).
Anyway, I echo the sentiment – Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, yes, yes, yes, yes. MSIE? Please, for the love of humanity, EN-OH spells no, out you must go
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