Serious security flaw found in IE

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Serious security flaw found in IE

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BBC News wrote:Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7784908.stm

Just thought ide post it here as it was being talked about on the radio this morning
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Re: Serious security flaw found in IE

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People use IE?
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Re: Serious security flaw found in IE

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Here's the fix

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

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Re: Serious security flaw found in IE

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haha.

anyway im sure if firefox was as used as IE it would suffer as well
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Re: Serious security flaw found in IE

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Running IE7 or IE8 in Vista with Protected Mode on should keep you safe... even if your browser is exploited, the browser doesn't have permissions to do anything harmful anyway. Vista's security trumps XP's in many ways.
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Re: Serious security flaw found in IE

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lol...says the "sellout" ;)
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