Hmm! I am running IE8 on my home office machine and it is behaving strangely for a few days. For instance, it won't open certain web pages or comes up with an error message that it will close down. Any thoughts, how I can find out for sure if it is effected?
Very Best Regards Waqas -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Rossi Sent: 25 September 2012 14:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Mozilla Firefox There was a serious security hole in IE that was discovered recently, and code exploits were in the wild. It was serious enough that my university chose to recommend that everyone stop using IE until Microsoft released a fix for this hole. They even pushed FireFox out to all domain managed computers at the university. I've never seen a response like this before, so I thought it was worth warning a few lists I am on. Microsoft has released an update and you should make sure to install it as soon as possible. Your virus definitions would not have helped you in this case. If you had been lured into going to a maliciously crafted web site, or hit a legitimate site with a compromised ad on it, it was possible to have remote code executed on your machine, at the same level of permissions as the user running IE at the time. Since most people don't set up users with limited access to their own machine, most people are running with administrator privileges, so this could be pretty serious. Again, I rarely send out warnings of viruses or malware, but when I see a response like this from our security office, I believe it to be a credible and serious threat. Again, Microsoft has released a fix and you should update as soon as possible. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Senior Oracle Database Administrator Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2441/5290 - Release Date: 09/24/12 For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
