Topic: Major Internet Explorer bug - All you have to do is visit a buggy page

[Nemesis]

Link to full article

A UK group of hackers has published a zero-day exploit which puts means IE users only have to visit a site to be attacked.

Computer Terrorism's exploit allows a remote hacker to take complete control of a Windows system.

Microsoft admitted that customers running Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP2 were at risk. However Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 in their default configurations, with the Enhanced Security Configuration turned on, are safe

[Nemesis]

Link to Secunia for more info

Solution:
Disable Active Scripting except for trusted sites.

Not a great solution but useful in the interim until there is a patch.

[Bonk]

How long have we been waiting for IE7 now? Proper png handling is all I ask dammit! I abandoned IE some time ago because of this issue alone.

I get the feeling we'll ba waiting till the release of Vista to get IE7. And it will be required...

[Javora]

I only use IE when I need to use Windows update, look through the Microsoft site or to move pictures to my on-line space, other than that I always use Firefox.  If Firefox would let me do those functions I wouldn't even use IE for that.  I've gotten to the point where I like Firefox a lot better than IE and have left IE behind.  I can't wait for Firefox 1.5 to come out.

[stoneyface]

when are people finally going to abandon IE...

here ya go

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html

[FMMonty]

This isn't so much about avoiding IE, it is about using a browser that very few others use to avoid being a target.

If firefox becomes too popular then they will become the target of choice instead, and we will all be heading to opera

[Nemesis]

This isn't so much about avoiding IE, it is about using a browser that very few others use to avoid being a target.

If firefox becomes too popular then they will become the target of choice instead, and we will all be heading to opera

I'd like to see IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera split the market.  That way no one browser would be a universal target and each would be obliged to follow standards to retain market share.  Interoperability needs to be fact not marketing fiction.

I didn't post this bug to criticize IE or promote Firefox.  I posted it as it seemed big enough and important enough that people here should be informed.

[FMMonty]

This isn't so much about avoiding IE, it is about using a browser that very few others use to avoid being a target.

If firefox becomes too popular then they will become the target of choice instead, and we will all be heading to opera

I'd like to see IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera split the market.  That way no one browser would be a universal target and each would be obliged to follow standards to retain market share.  Interoperability needs to be fact not marketing fiction.

I didn't post this bug to criticize IE or promote Firefox.  I posted it as it seemed big enough and important enough that people here should be informed.

Actually I like the way it works at present.  I like firefox, however if it keeps gaining popularity I'll have to stop using it, and I don't like opera very much at all

[Bonk]

Browse from Voyager on QNX, it is lightning fast!   
http://www.qnx.com/

Konqueror of KDE is quite a nice full featured browser I have found. I quite like it.
http://www.kde.org/