Well, what a surprise...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7784908.stm

Big security hole in IE7...

 

"Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to
switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed."

Crikey, what terrible publicity.

 

Ken? Is that you? Are you feeling ok?

 

It'll pass, what ever it is.

 

Senna Pods. A great help

Phil

 

She was married to Hengist, IIRC.

 

err, and they've patched it already.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/microsoft_ie_emergency_patch_warning_dec_16_2008/

what more do you want?

 

Free beer!

 

Titties and beer

 

I though that was Horsa?

(Old "1066 And All that" joke alert..)

Phil

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057918/quotes

HTH

 

Ah. Never seen it. I'm not exactly a fan of the Carry On series..

Phil

 

'darsy' wrote...>

The article says they "will" issue a patch, not they have.

Well its 10:10pm and none of my machines have had any patches installed
today, so I'd like the patch. In the next 1h 10 minutes.

 

Just installing here AFAIK.
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Microsoft to be a bit more honest ? (Naive of me, I know)

They seem to have known about this for a while [1] but only disclosed
it on 10/12. Somebody without the time or inclination to go digging
could assume that they only just found out about the problem and
issued a fix within 7 days rather than kept quiet for some weeks
presumably working on a fix and hoping nobody would notice the flaw.

Cheers,

John


[1] Since 31/10 according to this :
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4844
Since 15/11 according to this :
http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20081209.html

 

No mention of Hadrian, Hamilcar or Hotspur then?

 

What a carry on.

 

I'd think that would be normal practice to not disclose a problem
until you have a fix.

 

Our folks have told us this will be installed on all networked
machines at some point today.

 

'Pete Fisher' wrote...>

It installed on my machine about 30 minutes after I posted that when I
turned it off, so well done MS for listening to be and being under my
command