Security Flaw in IE

[okatidubi]

"REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is taking the unusual step of issuing an emergency fix for a security hole in its Internet Explorer software that has exposed millions of users to having their computers taken over by hackers."

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081216/tbs-tec-internet-explorer-security-f8250da.html

 

[richard.mac]

i saw this on the news this morning. haha they said until Microsoft fixes the vulnerability you sould stop using IE and use Firefox lmao

 

[SkyBell]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20)

Hopefully most of us are smart enough to use a different browser, and don't have to worry about this.

 

[SolRayz]

Is there any reason for us Safari users to worry. In other words, are our passwords safe?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Is there any reason for us Safari users to worry. In other words, are our passwords safe?

Put simply, if you're NOT using Internet Explorer for Windows you are unaffected by this particular security hole.