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New Exploit Rocks IE, Downloads Scores Of Spyware, Adware
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| September 19, 2006
| Gregg Keizer
Posted on 09/19/2006 5:36:00 PM PDT by Eagle9
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To: bitt
Perhaps it does explain something for me. I run Webroot Spy Sweeper a couple times a week because spyware seems to show up with regularity. Once, a back door trojan showed up. I do use IE occasionally, now I wonder if it has been the source of a lot of the crap that I have to get rid of with the Spy Sweeper.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:14:30 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: Eagle9
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:16:04 PM PDT
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
To: Eagle9
"I choose to use an alternative solution: Firefox or Opera as my browser."
Ditto, at least for anything other than a bank site. I hope the financial industry starts supporting Firefox better. The handwriting is on the wall.
To: Echo Talon
"stop looking at porn and you dont have anything to worry about. :)"
Or, I could scoop my eyeballs out with a hot spoon. That and not looking at porn both have about the same probability of happening, though they are both a cure.
To: Enterprise
try the free
http://www.ewido.com
.
you won't believe what it finds!
also, keep using your pop-up blocker....
and I STILL like spybot search and destroy.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:40:42 PM PDT
by
bitt
("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.")
To: FastCoyote
To: KoRn
To really make these alerts effective they should post very detailed information on how to use the exploits.
That would really light a fire under their asses! Ha ha! Yeah, that would do it. But even then, could MS issue a patch as quickly as Firefox?
Secunia has rated this vulnerability rated Extremely Critical and says that eight versions of MS Windows Server are unpatched. Does this mean that the key loggers and trojans can spread very quickly across the Internet and infect anyone using IE6, even though they have not visited a porn site? It also says that the solution for IE users is to deactivate support for Active Scripting. IE should have a NoScript extension -- easily turned off and on. :)
Secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21989
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:46:18 PM PDT
by
Eagle9
To: HAL9000; IncPen; Bush2000
I just checked and Bush2000 hasn't posted since February 2006. Hope he's okay. He hasn't been banned. Anyone know anything? I always enjoyed the friendly banter.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:51:16 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(The most important thing is sincerity. Once you can fake that, everything else is easy.)
To: Eagle9
"It also says that the solution for IE users is to deactivate support for Active Scripting.LOL! They should not even use it in that case.
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:53:15 PM PDT
by
KoRn
To: KoRn
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:56:37 PM PDT
by
Eagle9
To: Richard Kimball
The banter as I saw it was not always friendly, but I don't wish him any ill
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posted on
09/19/2006 8:58:11 PM PDT
by
IncPen
(Bush Iraq Truth WMD http://freedomkeys.com/whyiraq.htm)
To: devolve
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posted on
09/19/2006 9:00:32 PM PDT
by
185JHP
( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
To: Eagle9
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posted on
09/19/2006 9:47:07 PM PDT
by
DocRock
To: Eagle9
OK, I'm getting Firefox tomorrow. Freakin Microsoft.
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posted on
09/19/2006 9:52:55 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
("Now they will know better than to fight a martial arts master who is also made of gelatin!")
To: Eagle9
Hmmm...I posted that before I noticed that most of the users encountering this problem are getting it at porn sites. I WILL NOT have that problem...but i'm still changing to firefox.
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posted on
09/19/2006 10:00:33 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
("Now they will know better than to fight a martial arts master who is also made of gelatin!")
To: potlatch
That's what I feel like, LOL.
I dread another black screen experience.
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posted on
09/19/2006 10:05:25 PM PDT
by
ntnychik
To: Eagle9
The joys of computer ownership/use BUMP.
thanks for info. I use mozilla 99% of time. The other day I could NOT open a weboage w/mozilla for some reason.. went to IE & no problem.
well, yes there was, The problem was that it bothered me that IE could do something Moz could not! (well, perhaps MS has loaded some "little treasures" to make Mozilla less than perfect?
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posted on
09/19/2006 10:15:13 PM PDT
by
DollyCali
(Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
To: bitt
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posted on
09/19/2006 10:17:22 PM PDT
by
ForGod'sSake
(ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
To: ntnychik; devolve
Hmmm, don't know if you got to experience a bunch of black screens, lol. Blackout time!! Then they started dancing...
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posted on
09/19/2006 10:19:10 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: Mr. Silverback
"We think that this new exploit is inside a new [version of the] kit," said Sites. "If that's true, then it will end up all over the place." Microsoft is often relatively slow with their patches to vulnerabilities in IE. If they are this time, changing to Firefox would be a wise move. I don't go to porn sites either.
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posted on
09/19/2006 10:22:58 PM PDT
by
Eagle9
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