New IE vulnerabilities

Well, if you are still using Internet Explorer then you are asking for
trouble. According to this Yahoo article, there now are even more IE
vulnerabilities.

"Based on 85 advisories published by Secunia between 2003 and 2005,
about 25 percent of IE bugs remain unpatched. More than 40 percent of
those advisories are serious enough to be used in system compromise
attacks."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060501/tc_zd/177095

Use Mozilla Firefox with its ability to use IE from within itself when
a website requires IE.

Firefox has vulnerabilities, but they are spotted and sorted out more
quickly than flaws in IE, because it is
open-source software.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/

"Eric" wrote:

Use Mozilla Firefox with its ability to use IE from within itself when
a website requires IE.

AFAIK, Firefox has no such capability. The latest Netscape browser
uses the Gecko rendering engine (also used by Firefox) by default, but
can be switched to use the IE engine where desired.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)

There is an extension for FF ("I.E. Tab") which will enable this. Whether
this responds to any IE security concerns, I don't know.
http://ietab.mozdev.org/

Tim Slattery wrote:
"Eric" wrote:

Use Mozilla Firefox with its ability to use IE from within itself
when a website requires IE.

AFAIK, Firefox has no such capability. The latest Netscape browser
uses the Gecko rendering engine (also used by Firefox) by default, but
can be switched to use the IE engine where desired.

yawn

Dan wrote:
Well, if you are still using Internet Explorer then you are asking for
trouble. According to this Yahoo article, there now are even more IE
vulnerabilities.

"Based on 85 advisories published by Secunia between 2003 and 2005,
about 25 percent of IE bugs remain unpatched. More than 40 percent of
those advisories are serious enough to be used in system compromise
attacks."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060501/tc_zd/177095

That was quite a long hibernation, PA!


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"PA Bear" wrote in message
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| yawn
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| Dan wrote:
| Well, if you are still using Internet Explorer then you are asking
for
| trouble. According to this Yahoo article, there now are even more
IE
| vulnerabilities.
|
| "Based on 85 advisories published by Secunia between 2003 and 2005,
| about 25 percent of IE bugs remain unpatched. More than 40 percent
of
| those advisories are serious enough to be used in system compromise
| attacks."
|
| http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060501/tc_zd/177095

PCR wrote:
That was quite a long hibernation, PA!


grin

"Dan" wrote in message
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| PCR wrote:
| That was quite a long hibernation, PA!
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| grin

:-).