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#1 19-01-2010 16:54:15
- Silkie341
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Microsoft Internet Explorer vunerability
Well this is nasty.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/m … lorer.html
Governmental warnings that include a suggestion to download an alternate browser? Not that I've used IE myself in years but that seems below the belt to me even as a Firefox fan.
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#2 19-01-2010 18:41:46
Re: Microsoft Internet Explorer vunerability
Don't really see why people think the government should be advising them on securing there PC's 
Most sensible people dumped IE years ago 
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#3 20-01-2010 00:09:39
- Silkie341
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Re: Microsoft Internet Explorer vunerability
I think some other programmes still actually use it which is sort of worrying but I'm not sure to what extent. I notice that screenshots of games from Steam open in an IE window and Electronic Arts used to use it for their gaming lobby service. 
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#4 20-01-2010 10:51:37
- Jellyroll
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Re: Microsoft Internet Explorer vunerability
Many "corporate" products are built on the back of it, and won't work unless it's installed. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, its corporate anti-virus centralised control system, is such a product, for example.
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