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It's Friday, the weekend has landed... and Microsoft warns of an Internet Explorer zero day exploited in the wild (Yes, this is IN ADDITION TO all the bad ones in Patch Tuesday)
The Register ^
| Jan 18, 2020
| Shaun Nichols
Posted on 01/18/2020 11:49:22 AM PST by dayglored
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Geez, and having patched everything the past few days, we thought we'd have the weekend off.
Note: The bold emphasis in the article quoted is mine.
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posted on
01/18/2020 11:49:22 AM PST
by
dayglored
To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; bajabaja; ...
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posted on
01/18/2020 11:50:16 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
THIS IS NOT FIXED YET -- NO PATCH IS AVAILABLE YET
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posted on
01/18/2020 11:51:20 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
But really, ‘fess up now, you’re not STILL using Internet Exxplorer, right? RIGHT???
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posted on
01/18/2020 11:52:15 AM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
Well, it is ONE way to get a menu bar
and yes, there are still big corporate pages that work properly only with IE.
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posted on
01/18/2020 11:57:10 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: dayglored
THE PATCH HAS BEEN OUT FOR YEARS...
Don’t surf as admin.
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:06:11 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Dr. Sivana
>
there are still big corporate pages that work properly only with IE....there are still big corporate pages that work properly only with IE. I wish such companies would publicize the fact that they're still in that state. It speaks very poorly of their commitment to business security.
I know very well, being in that business, that it takes a lot of time, effort, and money to rewrite a big business application or website for portability once it's been written for IE. Maybe Microsoft could set up a fund that companies could request and tap for help in cutting loose from IE. :-)
Anyway, if I knew which companies were still in that state, I would make a point of avoiding their web sites and web services. It's freakin' 2020. There is simply no excuse for Internet Explorer being used anywhere but in a museum of Early Internet Curiosities.
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:06:35 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: mrsmith
>
THE PATCH HAS BEEN OUT FOR YEARS... Dont surf as admin. Well, that advice is of course excellent and has indeed been published for many years.
Care to venture a guess as to what percentage of Windows users surf using their admin-priv user account?
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:08:24 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
More interesting...
why doesn’t Windows make it a default to put IE, or any browser, only in a user accounts?
I don’t like Edge because I’m not allowed to modify it like I can IE.
Why won’t they let user at least modify it’s settings to make it more secure?
I assume profit is involved.
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:14:16 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: dayglored
I got the fix ...
Remove the nameserver for microsoft.com from the domain registry.
To: George from New England
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:19:59 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
There is simply no excuse for Internet Explorer being used anywhere but in a museum of Early Internet Curiosities.
I would like a true alternative on the Windows OS side besides Google Chrome based browsers. Firefox went down the rabbit hole a long time ago, and Safari abandoned the platform altogether. Everyone else (Opera, Brave) has taken Google's offering.
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:23:08 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: dayglored
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:27:48 PM PST
by
McGruff
To: dayglored
To: McGruff
WE'RE DOOMED!!
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:39:30 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: mrsmith
>
I assume profit is involved. That's partly it. The other parts are:
- Unwillingness to "break" existing customer websites, applications, and customer revenue models, and
- Inability to fix architectural flaws without breaking things.
Microsoft's products still suffer from the mistakes made in the early years, when "COOL" was everything and "SECURITY" was nothing.
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:42:54 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
So that is why doing searches using google has suddenly gotten crappy.
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:49:42 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: dayglored
Good point. I’ve always been careful about the internet and often don’t understand the attitude of the careless, or sympathise with them.
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posted on
01/18/2020 12:55:57 PM PST
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: dayglored
Surf, using VirtualBox and sign in to a Virtual machine.
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posted on
01/18/2020 1:04:39 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dayglored
We still have IE11 on all three of our computers, but use Firefox just about 100% of the time.
Just out of curiosity, if I removed Explorer today, how likely would it be that tomorrow I would be saying "Dang, this particular function (nothing specific in mind so far) used to be so much easier with Explorer?"
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posted on
01/18/2020 1:41:35 PM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for criminals.)
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