Comments on: An IE Security Flaw So Serious, Experts Suggest Switching

By: Long URL Please Makes a Lot of Sense - Akshay Technologies

Long URL Please Makes a Lot of Sense - Akshay Technologies — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:49:35 +0000

[...] no way to tell where its going. Thus, you wont know if you’re being phished or worse yet hacked (IE exploit, anyone?) until it has already redirected. That’s a little [...]

By: Long URL Please Makes a Lot of Sense | Technologizer

Long URL Please Makes a Lot of Sense | Technologizer — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:16:22 +0000

[...] way to tell where its going. Thus, you wont know if you’re being phished or worse yet hacked (IE exploit, anyone?) until it has already redirected. That’s a little [...]

By: Taylor

Taylor — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:39:19 +0000

Wow… My ENTIRE school uses IE… I better talk to the IT department

By: virusremoval

virusremoval — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:56:24 +0000

Great scare tactics. Great for my business… But would you mind adding a few details? What is the NAME of the “virus” (all major A/V’s name things – like mydoom.v) Also, other than “perform windows updates” – how do you DETECT if your computer is infected?

By: Serious IE Flaw Gets Special Patch Treatment | Technologizer

Serious IE Flaw Gets Special Patch Treatment | Technologizer — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:39:47 +0000

[...] all:&nbspNews Well, that was quick. The serious flaw in Internet Explorer that we posted about Tuesday has been fixed through an out of cycle security patch. Typically, Microsoft holds its “Patch [...]

By: Amin

Amin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:24:53 +0000

I already use Firefox because its so much better than ie in all ways and this security flaw is another proof that ie is old school and is useless.

By: elinus

elinus — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:27:19 +0000

Or is it called Windows Explorer too? :-)
Is that why IE so vulnerable?

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:18:31 +0000

I cant believe IE explorer allows web sites to copy DLL’s to the windows/system32 directory and update the registry to start up these hidden services. IT SHOULD NEVER ALLOW DLL’s to be copyed full stop.

After all these years it still allows it, too many features in IE.
Why cant it be rewritten and run in a sandbox with a micro kernal and mini registry so it it gets trashed just hit the flush button and a new one flushes out the old infected one.

Actually I surf the internet in a VMWARE virtual machine and if its hit i just delete the virtual machine and start a fresh one. It also gives me a chance to hit back at these Malware sites and report them. I monitor the system32 directory and track IP packets addresses to these sites and tell the authority’s. The malware DLLS plug in to the system DLLs slowing down windows while transmitting packets.

This is a unbelievable flaw, where talking about Malware, adware and the
VirtuMonde, Vundo.P, HBKernel32 ect..

my ditto comment

By: Whats the IE security issue thing about? - Just Commodores

Whats the IE security issue thing about? - Just Commodores — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:46:48 +0000

[...] An IE Security Flaw So Serious, Experts Suggest Switching|Technologizer Apparently its in all IE versions – even those as old as IE5, and even in the newest betas. __________________ "There’s nothing quite like a Holden" [...]

By: Dan Lyke

Dan Lyke — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:33:41 +0000

So, wait, there have been ‘experts” in the past decade or so who haven’t been screaming “avoid IE at all costs”? Who are these people, and why has anyone considered them credible?

Experts have long suggested staying away from IE.