bill
msg:3959425 | 7:50 am on Jul 25, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I found this part interesting at the end of the article:
| Microsoft didn't give a reason for the rushed update but it may be trying to stay ahead of any public disclosure at next week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. |
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jdMorgan
msg:3959497 | 1:48 pm on Jul 25, 2009 (gmt 0) |
It's really been a bad month for browser security. As of today, we have unpatched vulnerabilities in Sun Java JRE 6U14, Adobe Reader 9 and Flash Player 10, IE8, and SeaMonkey/1.1.17 (formerly Mozilla Suite). Jim
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JS_Harris
msg:3959682 | 3:45 am on Jul 26, 2009 (gmt 0) |
My IE is set to connect over LAN and resolved to ip 0.0.0.0 which completely disables it, that's not changing anytime soon. This is getting ridiculous in its regularity.
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bill
msg:3959988 | 1:43 am on Jul 27, 2009 (gmt 0) |
| My IE is set to connect over LAN and resolved to ip 0.0.0.0 which completely disables it |
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JS_Harris I've seen you mention this in various posts for several months now. I just wanted to point out to members that you shouldn't do this unless you know what you're doing. This sort of setting can stop the updates of multiple software packages that use IE's settings to connect to the Internet.
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kaled
msg:3960181 | 10:32 am on Jul 27, 2009 (gmt 0) |
| My IE is set to connect over LAN and resolved to ip 0.0.0.0 which completely disables it |
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I'm going to be blunt... Disabling Internet Explorer by messing with its connection settings is utterly pointless. - Internet Explorer vulnerabilities affect Internet Explorer only - if you don't use Internet Explorer then these vulnerabilities do not affect you in any way.
- As other have pointed out, this will break other legitimate applications that use these settings.
- Use of these settings by other applications does NOT make them vulnerable.
- Malware is unlikely to use these settings so disabling IE in this way is unlikely to protect you from any malware that is already present on your computer.
Kaled.
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smconline
msg:3960701 | 1:51 am on Jul 28, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Ah crap! I just realized I'm reading these posts on IE8 now. Son of a @#$%&!
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bill
msg:3961413 | 1:17 am on Jul 29, 2009 (gmt 0) |
The patches are available for me now from Japan. They should have the other markets available as well.
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tedster
msg:3961457 | 3:38 am on Jul 29, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Yes - the IE blog confirms [blogs.msdn.com] that the update is now available.
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