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Yet Another Microsoft IE Breach

by Patrician
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Microsoft rushes out software fix to prevent browser attacks | Reuters

Hey - this never ends does it?

I never use IE but I do not want to remove it from my Windows 7 PC -

Why? I don't know - it just seems like it belongs there but from what I heard even if you don't use it, it is still a threat until they find YET ANOTHER HOLE TO BE PATCHED.

How professional. :rolleyes:

p.s. i got the patches (2) very simple and faster than I remember ever before in the patchwork quilt.

where is that pun thread - patchwork guilt.
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    Originally Posted by Patrician View Post

    Microsoft rushes out software fix to prevent browser attacks | Reuters

    Hey - this never ends does it?

    I never use IE but I do not want to remove it from my Windows 7 PC -

    Why? I don't know - it just seems like it belongs there but from what I heard even if you don't use it, it is still a threat until they find YET ANOTHER HOLE TO BE PATCHED.

    How professional. :rolleyes:

    p.s. i got the patches (2) very simple and faster than I remember ever before in the patchwork quilt.

    where is that pun thread - patchwork guilt.

    Most of the bugs are O/S or design. NEITHER can be changed much. OH, they put effectively the XP S2 code into vista, 7, and 8, but it is a COMPROMISE! Safari, opera, chrome, firefox, etc.... STILL HAVE to have the same design flaws and use the OS. If they don't, you have to forget about OLE, like java, PSD, FLASH, etc...

    Of course, as you use THOSE things, you get MORE bugs. SUN KNEW this would happen and TRIED to prevent it with java, but they still have to make it usable elsewhere, so it STILL has problems.

    Steve
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    Yep - Life's a breach and then you die!

    They mentioned in the articles the hackers that didn't already know about the breach will reverse engineer the patch to create more havoc.

    It's all part of the darkness - par for the course...

    Knowing that somehow doesn't help much but they say 'information is power' so watt-evah!
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by Patrician View Post

      Yep - Life's a breach and then you die!

      They mentioned in the articles the hackers that didn't already know about the breach will reverse engineer the patch to create more havoc.

      It's all part of the darkness - par for the course...

      Knowing that somehow doesn't help much but they say 'information is power' so watt-evah!
      Most patches couldn't be reverse engineered to get new hacks. Like buffer overrun exploits, for example. Once patched, the easiest hack woul be to use the exploit ELSEWERE.

      Of course, advertising a patch advertises the weakness, and they COULD try the exploit ANYWAY, since many won't update it.

      Steve
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