“Extremely critical” IE flaw
January 10, 2005 by Mike Wendland
Seriously now, can anyone possibly keep track of these constant warnings about “new” flaws discovered in IE?
It has to be evey day we’re hearing about another one, or one we knew about that is worse than we thought.
If it was an automobile, the whole product would be pulled. Internet Explorer flaw gets ‘extremely critical’ rating
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1749293,00.asp
I hope it doesnt take them 3.5 years to fix like this one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69070
The one imporant thing to remember is that these IE flaws are especially dangerous because IE is effectively married to Windows itself.
I’ve been telling everyone to switch to FireFox.. and have luckily been met with little resistance. Unfortunately, IE is still on these machines which is still a cause for concern.
Thats really bunk, actually. Once you have the ability to run arbitrary code, steal passwords, and/or elevate priveleges (all these types of bugs were fixed when FF went 1.0) it makes no difference whether you are “married to the operating system” or not. As these alternative “safer” technologies become more popular, they are getting whacked. Look at the PHP virus that has been ravaging web sites. There have been several variants of a virus that attacks Symbian-based phones. There’s even been a (recent) phishing exploit against RedHat users posing as a security update for heavens sake. How long do you think it will take before malware poses as one of the beloved FF add-ins?
All I can say is THANKS to MIKE!
I would not have known about “Extremely critical” IE flaw” as quick if I did not visit mikesejournal.com! We are all vulnerable to the outside world thru the internet VIA IE, FireFox, AOL… ECT. But let me just say this, sometimes keeping up with security, for any PC, can be a full time job. (Hoping to make that dream a reality!) So, what I am getting at is, THANKS MIKE for taking the time to expose these security issues for all of us.