to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest
security vulnerability in the software was exposed.
A statement on the CERT site said: "There are a number of significant
vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security
model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It
is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a
different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites." CERT
otherwise recommends users to set security settings to high and disable
_javascript_
Malicious code, dubbed variously as "Scob" or "Download.Ject",
originally posted last week on a Russian website, could be downloaded
secretly onto websites using Microsoft's Internet Information Server
5.0. The code could then be used to log keystrokes made by visitors to
the site - so long as they used Internet Explorer as their browser.
Information, including passwords, was then to be emailed to the
criminals behind the atack.
Microsoft
<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/jun04/0625download-jectst
atement.asp> said that it was unaware of widespread consumer impact and
noted that the Russian site had been taken offline. It said some
enterprise users of Windows 2000 Server, specifically users running IIS
5.0, were being targeted by "Download.Ject". According to MS, this is
not a trojan or worm but "a targeted manual attack by individuals or
entities towards a specific server". It said users should use a
firewall, ensure they have the latest software updates and use
anti-virus software.
Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman, called on users to switch on auto-update
so that patches would spread faster. Speaking to Reuters in Australia at
the weekend, he vowed to "guarantee that the average time to fix will
come down. The thing we have to do is not only get these patches done
very quickly...we also have to convince people to turn on auto-update."�
-Gel
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