Serious security flaw found in IE
A vulnerability has been discovered and the 27% of users of this site using Internet Explorer should probably install this hotfix as soon as possible.

From BBC.co.uk
The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.

Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it. Internet Explorer is used by the vast majority of the world's computer users.

"Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer," said the firm in a security advisory alert about the flaw.

Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the "underlying vulnerability" was present in all versions of the browser. Other browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, are not vulnerable to the flaw Microsoft has identified.

Browser bait
"In this case, hackers found the hole before Microsoft did," said Rick Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro. "This is never a good thing."

As many as 10,000 websites have been compromised since the vulnerability was discovered, he said.

"What we've seen from the exploit so far is it stealing game passwords, but it's inevitable that it will be adapted by criminals," he said. "It's just a question of modifying the payload the trojan installs."

"The message needs to get out that this malicious code can be planted on any web site, so simple careful browsing isn't enough."

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Those that still use IE are hopeless anyways.

Cowbearpig (80 Druid)

I haven't tested Ritz's website in awhile but it was inoperable in Firefox. Getting good deals on the thousand of prints I order > then ego about using a certain browser.

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I use Firefox with the NoScript and AdblockPlus installed so I can safely browse certain websites

ROFL to the above statement!

Anyhow, I started using Firefox about 8 years ago when I started doing web development and became an avid Firefox fangirl.

However, with the update of IE to tabbed browsing and having quite a few sites that I frequently visit being problematic on Firefox, I have been using IE a lot more recently without any issues or complaints.
BUT this coming up just re-confirmed to me that I need to default back to Firefox.

I'll have to check out AdblockPlus. In the past I have just used the built in pop-up blocker in whatever browser I was working in.

"WoW is all free candy and cookies and cute little pets...and then Kali yelling for hours. Same as it ever was, but with more crazy orcs." - Spirulina 3/15/15

Internet Explorer version of Foxnews



Firefox version of Foxnews with NoScript and AdblockPlus

Endarken, your problem is not the browser, it's that you're on Fox News...

"WoW is all free candy and cookies and cute little pets...and then Kali yelling for hours. Same as it ever was, but with more crazy orcs." - Spirulina 3/15/15

hahaha

[[Coward:Jerryatric:Peteyatric]]Coward - 83 Prot Warrior
Jerryatric - 72 Marks Hunter
Peteyatric - 70 Holy Priest

I KNEW YOU WOULD WRITE THAT

Can't look at any of those girl-on-girl sites at work though

Naw, actually if you look firefox blocks about 25% of the screen content that is basically garbage data.

I don't think that is the real site. You might be being redirected to a fake.

THe fox news I saw was a temple to Sarah Palin. .

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So as I mentioned I was going to get firefox again and I am having problems with firefox latest whtat seems to not want to submit my login for shadowstrikers.org.

I have it on allow cookies from this site and the rest are default settings.

I never had this happen with previous versions of firefox. Is there something I'm missing? Everything else logs in fine.

"WoW is all free candy and cookies and cute little pets...and then Kali yelling for hours. Same as it ever was, but with more crazy orcs." - Spirulina 3/15/15