Microsoft has released a patch for the security vulnerability in Internet Explorer pogge referred to a couple of posts down. I applied this patch last night and, so far, no problems. I suggest you apply the patch regardless of whether or not you use IE. There are many other applications that use the IE rendering engine so you might be vulnerable even if you don't use IE itself. Why take the chance?
There are always a few smug non IE users out there. Firefox users among them might want to stop thumbing their noses at IE users long enough to download the 8 patches Mozilla has just released to plug 13 vulnerabilities.
Description of vulnerabilities for both browsers and links to the patches are here. BTW - I tried to download the patches for both Firefox and Opera this morning and struck out on both.
And there are always a couple of Mac and Linux users we can count on to be consistently annoying - after all their operating systems are made of kryptonite and invulnerable to everything, right? Mac users, once they recover from their attack of " the vapours" might want to check out the patch for the 21 security holes Apple just fixed.
And just so Linux users don't feel left out, scroll down through this list for a bunch of newly disclosed vulnerabilities including this one affecting a number of distros.
The only secure computer is one that is turned off and unplugged as a scroll through the Security Focus list should convince you.
Updated by the world's worst proof reader. :-(
There are many other applications that use the IE rendering engine so you might be vulnerable even if you don't use IE itself.
Probably can't be stressed enough. If you're running Windows you should apply all security patches for the applications that shipped as part of Windows precisely because the components of those apps may be called by other programs.
"There are always a few smug non IE users out there. Firefox users among them might want to stop thumbing their noses at IE users long enough to download the 8 patches Mozilla has just released to plug 13 vulnerabilities."
Don't have to do that it happens automatically. And usually Firefox problems are fixed a lot quicker than IE problems
Whether or not it happens automatically depends on the user's configuration. Many of us don't allow anything to automatically update anything.
And, if you are running Windoze, don't forget to install that IE patch anyway. I have never used IE as my default browser but the patch still needs to be installed unless you are prepared to risk making any number of things stop working by removing it completely.
Description of vulnerabilities for both browsers and links to the patches are here. BTW - I tried to download the patches for both Firefox and Opera this morning and struck out on both.
Ummm. I don't see anything on that page about Opera. Am I missing something?
Just to ensure the accuracy of your post, I suppose I'd better be consistently annoying. Wouldn't want to let you down, what?
By an odd coincidence, a little flag at the top of my screen just popped up saying Mandriva, my Linux distribution, has some updates available. Having handed it a password, the list shows among other things a Firefox update as well as an update to a related library. Think I'll click "update" on this one.
. . . Done now. I guess if I ran Windows I'd have to restart the computer.
Randall - Go to the last link in the post and scroll down through the Security Focus vulnerabilities list and you will eventually hit a couple for Opera. From what I saw, if you just go to opera.com and download 9.63 you should be ok. I tried first thing this morning (because opera has been my default browser for years) but timed out on the download. It's probably fine later in the day.
PLG - compared to the insufferable Linux harpies I'm thinking of, you don't even qualify as mildy irritating. Sorry. ;-) Actually I had the same procedure from M$ for the IE update on XP - the notice popped up, I d/l the patch and I didn't even have to restart either. Amazing wot?