On Sunday 17 January 2010 20:10:27 Guru गुरु wrote: > German government warns against using MS Explorer
> Thomas Baumgaertner, a spokesman for Microsoft in Germany, said > that while they were aware of the warning, they did not agree with > it, saying that the attacks on Google were by "highly motivated > people with a very specific agenda". "These were not attacks > against general users or consumers," said Mr Baumgaertner. "There > is no threat to the general user, consequently we do not support > this warning," he added. With characters like Thomas Baumgaertner running M$, users are already in the deep end of the cesspool. > Microsoft says the security hole can be shut by setting the > browser's security zone to "high", although this limits Setting the security zone to high or maximum makes no difference. > Fix development > However, this is no easy task. BTW Cross site scripting vulnerability (XSS) on xploder was discovered in 97. > Microsoft said that while all versions of > Internet Explorer were affected, the risk was lower with more > recent releases of its browser. Ha HA. Same vulnerability lower risk. Infact there is another newly discovered hole on the newer browsers, and the discoverer has not published it so far, to give the bozos at M$ time to fix it. And btw a link with a brief synopsis would have been good enough. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
