On Friday Microsoft released a patch for the flaws exploited by the recent Download.Ject attack. The patch is labeled a configuration change, and prevents an ActiveX component from writing to the system. While the flaws have been known for over 9 months, only recently have they been exploited. The patch is available through Windows Update. More information can be found on Microsoft's site.
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It appears that this workaround (not a true patch anyway) doesn't work afterall. Read more about it here:
http://weblogs.mozillazi...sa/archives/005909.html
Be smart and dump IE. Use a real modern and secure browser like Firefox, Mozilla or Opera!
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|Could someone (knowledgeable preferably) explain in a sane, calm way, the different alternatives for browsers available and the major differences between them?
thanks!
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|The best thing you can do is to try Firefox, Mozilla and Opera out and then you will see what the difference is and which one works best for you.
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|Interestingly I applied this patch on a W2K SP4+ PC and the monitor kept shutting down after 20mins even though in power management it was set to never for monitor turn off. Maybe a coincidence? I don't know, as this was the only system change. Reboot didn't stop this happening. But a brief powerdown seems to have fixed this behavior.
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|Anyone who knows and/or understands IE's problems in general and this one in particular has long ago switched to Mozilla or Opera. Everyone else keeps blindly using IE and walking into traps. Virtually everyone I know gets their news from the television and have little knowledge or interest in this stuff - when's the last time Channel 3 news pointed this stuff out? They're not even aware that IE is a browser rather than "the Internet" or that there are alternatives... until their computer gets fried to the point where they can't help but realize something's wrong and someone takes the time to show them. I just hope the people who don't know any better have automatic updates turned on...
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|According to SecurityFocus (http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10514), this bug affects IE 5.5 and later on Windows 95 and later. So why is the patch only for Windows 2000 and above? Microsoft STILL doesn't get it.
It's a simple registry edit to disable ADODB.Stream on those OSes the patch doesn't support.
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|*Smacks head*
That is pretty bad.
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|They _did_ release an update for 9x/ME. Refer to the MS Knowledge Base article.
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|What about folks who *need* ADOB.Stream? They're up the creek?
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|That's the problem with this so-called fix/update/patch. It's a bandaid and nothing more.
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|About time :D
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