New Explorer hole could be devastating

[BouncingAyatollah]

InfoWorld

Hehe, if you use Aaaaaiiieeeeeee 6 you can be spoofed to one site which the "browser" reports as another and then download a file of one type which the "browser" reports as another! ! Possibilities are endless...

[WMD]

quote:The advice is to avoid this latest hole is always save files to a folder and then look at them.

haha  

[Xeen]

quote:Originally posted by BouncingAyatollah:
Possibilities are endless...

Possibilities are indeed endless it seems with Microsoft software. In the future I can see there being a bug in IE that allows exploiters to write code that melts computers when the web page is opened via IE. Now that would be a cool bug.

[Stryker]

and one that wouldn't be fixed... that way you have to buy all that dma infected hardware

[Heywood]

I want to see one where as soon as you get an email, your computer explodes and your refrigerator ceases operation.