Another Zero day IE flaws.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/04/oct_patch_tuesday_ie_0day_fix_due/
This one has been out there quite a while so a very unlucky few of you may well be botnets by now.
It was discovered being exploited August but could well have been used selectively for far longer.
This one has been out there quite a while so a very unlucky few of you may well be botnets by now.
It was discovered being exploited August but could well have been used selectively for far longer.
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There's a FixIt (51001)
Most people only get to see/choose that busy Patch Tuesday.
Maybe I was right. Two Zero day fixes!
Worked "fine" for me, I got 43 updates :eek:. That must be the biggest patch Tuesday that I can ever recall.
Weren't working for me either. Came on may be the 5th go.
Also restarted during the restart.
It took a good while to download and install them.
Another one that I think has been around a while now. I would also assume that both the zero day Office flaw and this gets fixed patch Tuesday.
With anyone allowed to and 1000's of people probably already messing about with the source code we would certainly hear about them.
That is if any still exist.
I'd be more surprised if they didn't exist
I've never heard of any in either browser. A new version of Firefox is released every 6 weeks and I presume new versions of Chrome are released fairly often as well. Remember FF is open source, IE is not and never will be because of the Microsoft Monopoly :rolleyes:
Is that bad?
Just because something is open source does not instantly make it good.
The Microsoft Monopoly is. Look how Netscape Navigator was pushed out of the market in the late 90s because of it. IE was basically forced on users. I've read the cases as I studied antitrust law last year and had to read them and it's quite frankly outrageous.
Swings and roundabouts
Open source means that someone can trawl the code to find a bug to exploit.
It also means that someone can trawl the code and flag and suggest a fix for the very same bug.
Fastest wins
Or is it transparency that people like, MS bugs get reported on El Reg or the BBC, Firefox and Chrome bugs get reported on their own bug forums. Who reads those? I know I don't.
Good business practice for MS though - and most other companies would do the same...Google do it now with Chrome
I'm sure MS have ways to get lists of bugs
I'd be interested in your sources for that. I was about in the 90's and used Netscape in Win 3 but only because it didn't contain TCP/IP support in the stack and IE didn't exist yet!!
The inclusion of a web browser in Win 3.11/Win95 made everything so much easier, standardised (yes, standards from MS:eek:) internet protocols and an in-built web browser allowed the (small) masses to access the web.
The browser wars were all about standards, in those days the W3C didn't exist and MS were fighting with Netscape over HTML elements. That was only fixed later and unfortunately IE won as it ended up with the larger install base and web developers wrote for it, to the detriment of the (only) other browser.
I'm still skeptical about the anti-trust elements that people are still spouting after all this time. Users (and web developers) voted with their feet - IE was the browser that won and because of the battle the W3C was made to standardise mark-up languages, which must be a good thing.
Thankfully MS now have to support standards instead of (re-)writing their own. Unfortunately XHTML 'transitional' has to exist to support depreciated tags in IE and Firefox, but we're getting there :cool:.
ETA: I remember adding small graphics on the index page "Best viewed using Internet Explorer (or another browser) with an 800 x 600 screen" that linked to the download page for the browser. Thankfully those days are over.
And I'm sure they have too
It seems the popular press would rather report on bugs in Internet Explorer though as the bugs that are reported daily and publicly on the forums for Firefox and Chrome don't seem to make the news that most people follow.
I'm not defending IE, no software is perfect. It just seems to me as an easy target and any issues get sensationalised which only serves to give the detractors ammunition.
I'd also say that flaws are sometimes there for the use of government security services, and maybe rightly so.
Don't be so daft