Three new flaws found in IE - For Bifta ;)

[TheBlueRaja]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19737

SECUNIA HAS ALERTED its customers to three holes in Microsoft Internet Explorer, two of which are moderately critical.

The moderately critical holes, discovered by Cyber Flash, allow the bypassing of security features in Windows XP SP2 on downloading files of particular types.

Another error means that when saving some documents using the Javascript "execCommand() function a file extension can be spoofed in the Save HTML Document dialogue, Secunia said.

The solution to these two problems are to disable Active Scripting support and the "hide extension for known file types option".

There's a demo of these problems, here.

The third, less serious hole is a Cookie path attribute problem if trusted sites support wildcard domains or the domain name contains a malicious site domain by using a maliciously crafted path attribute.

Users with Windows XP SP2 are not affected by the last problem. The solution is to disable cookies except when they're needed, or to update to Windows XP SP2. µ

[Bifta]

Sure, they'll be patched soon enough and IE will still be more reliable than Firefox

[Stuart]

ahh, should use a decent browser... Look at my sig..

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by scastle

ahh, should use a decent browser... Look at my sig..

Whats the advantage of Opera over other browsers?

[TigaSefi]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Whats the advantage of Opera over other browsers?

It's Not Firefox.....

[Mr_love_monkey]

but they expect you to (dare I say it).... PAY for it!!!!!!

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Whats the advantage of Opera over other browsers?

Based on my own personal experience
Opera is faster than other browsers (it is faster than IE and feels faster than firefox)

More secure than IE, although this applies to Firefox as well
Skinnable
Built in email is quite good, but you do have the option of using whatever email client you want (I use Thunderbird)
Virtual post it notes.
Download size (16 Meg with latest Java, 3.5 Meg without)
Full WAP support (OK, not much of an advantage, but if anyone offer a WAP site with no web equivalent, you can view it).
Mouse Gestures (you can control opera with quick mouse movements, e.g. holding the left button and dragging to the left goes back a page)
Opera can "pretend" to be different browsers. This involves chanaging the Agent ID sent to the server, but can be used to get around browser checks.
Tabbed browsing. It can automatically create a new tab in the current window when asked to create a new window (thus keeping the taskbar at the bottom clear). It can be configured to open new windows instead, if desired.
Rather bizarrely, it also includes it's own system for creating Powerpoint-style slideshows..

Cons
As with all browsers, some pages will not display correctly (esecially if they use IE onl features)
Can use an awful of memory (was running it on 2000 server yesterday and it was using 120 Meg of memory :disturbed: )

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

but they expect you to (dare I say it).... PAY for it!!!!!!

No, they don't.

I use the ad-supported version, which periodically downloads ads from Google.

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by scastle

No, they don't.

I use the ad-supported version, which periodically downloads ads from Google.

iirc I found a prog to disable the ads somewhere recently........

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

iirc I found a prog to disable the ads somewhere recently........

Thanks, but I have to admit, they don't bother me... They are actually considerably less intrusive than the advertising on Cableforum..

[aliferste]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

iirc I found a prog to disable the ads somewhere recently........

Isnt that a bit like just using a keygen to pretend you have bought it?

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by aliferste

Isnt that a bit like just using a keygen to pretend you have bought it?

No idea m8

[TheBlueRaja]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

No idea m8

LOL

[Tristan]

Originally Posted by scastle

Based on my own personal experience
Opera is faster than other browsers (it is faster than IE and feels faster than firefox)

More secure than IE, although this applies to Firefox as well
Skinnable
Built in email is quite good, but you do have the option of using whatever email client you want (I use Thunderbird)
Virtual post it notes.
Download size (16 Meg with latest Java, 3.5 Meg without)
Full WAP support (OK, not much of an advantage, but if anyone offer a WAP site with no web equivalent, you can view it).
Mouse Gestures (you can control opera with quick mouse movements, e.g. holding the left button and dragging to the left goes back a page)
Opera can "pretend" to be different browsers. This involves chanaging the Agent ID sent to the server, but can be used to get around browser checks.
Tabbed browsing. It can automatically create a new tab in the current window when asked to create a new window (thus keeping the taskbar at the bottom clear). It can be configured to open new windows instead, if desired.
Rather bizarrely, it also includes it's own system for creating Powerpoint-style slideshows..

Cons
As with all browsers, some pages will not display correctly (esecially if they use IE onl features)
Can use an awful of memory (was running it on 2000 server yesterday and it was using 120 Meg of memory :disturbed: )

But every single one of those features (except the odd Powerpoint one) can be added to Firefox with extensions...

When I used Opera I found the adverts *incredibly* annoying, but maybe that's just me.

And what's wrong with Firefox, anyway? At least it's not IE...

Originally Posted by scastle

ahh, should use a decent browser...

IE is a decent browser.