Wednesday, July 06, 2005
At last, some relief for the latest IE vulnerability
Once again, Microsoft Internet Explorer (the "blue E") has a problem that allows bad guys to take over your computer.
Microsoft suggests workarounds in their security bulletin. They're pretty technical but the bulletin describes them in enough detail for anyone to follow.
I'm still trying to find out how serious this problem is. Bad guys aren't using it for breakins, at least not on a large scale. The first accounts make it sound like the problem only comes up if you're allowing "ActiveX" to run from untrusted web sites. Never mind the technical details: if your computer is working well enough that you can read this, you probably haven't been letting random web sites run ActiveX.
On the other hand, I need to find out whether this affects all the zillions of other places in Windows that use components from Internet Explorer.
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Microsoft suggests workarounds in their security bulletin. They're pretty technical but the bulletin describes them in enough detail for anyone to follow.
I'm still trying to find out how serious this problem is. Bad guys aren't using it for breakins, at least not on a large scale. The first accounts make it sound like the problem only comes up if you're allowing "ActiveX" to run from untrusted web sites. Never mind the technical details: if your computer is working well enough that you can read this, you probably haven't been letting random web sites run ActiveX.
On the other hand, I need to find out whether this affects all the zillions of other places in Windows that use components from Internet Explorer.
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