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Internet Explorer Users - Warning! (and workaround fix)
Microsoft has announced a new security hole for users of Internet Explorer on Windows XP. This is a nasty hole that is being exploited presently. Microsoft has provided an automatic workaround until they publish a patch for it.
If you are using both Windows XP, and Internet Explorer as your browser, go to that link and click on "Fix This Problem".
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My workaround is Firefox.
July 8, 2009 8:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mine too, but I still use Windows Update, which requires IE, and I do some web authoring, which needs to be double-checked in IE for comparability issues. That makes me almost completely protected, but not entirely.
I also use very strict rules about ActiveX controls, and that almost completely clamps down this security hole from the git. Try to explain that to the average computer user though, and then go over how to implement the fix without freaking-out about the warnings and inaccessible content.
July 8, 2009 9:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks PCA. I'm on FF as well, and don't use Windows Update, I've got it set on some kind of automatic updates. Does that somehow make me vulnerable to problems with IE? (I've got no clue on this tech stuff...)
July 8, 2009 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Make sure that the address you go to when updating windows is a valid MS site. I show it as being: update.microsoft.com.
July 8, 2009 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just the same Obey, to be safe, open up the work-around link above in IE, and then just click it on. It's painless.
July 8, 2009 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Done. Thanks!
July 8, 2009 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Likewise. Still on 3.0.11, as I've heard 3.5 still runs a bit rough.
July 8, 2009 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
There are a few extensions I like that aren't compatible with FF 3.5, although one of them, that checks for bad links on a webpage (used often, when I code pages), is easily implemented through a bookmarklet.
July 8, 2009 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder why it is they break extensions when they update?
July 8, 2009 11:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Extensions sometimes make use of security flaws, or just poor-coding that doesn't work in newer versions. Also, underlying languages used to implement extensions change incrementally with browser updates. Some functionality may get deprecated, and if the extension is not being actively developed, it will no longer work.
July 8, 2009 2:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mine, too. I don't even know how to use Explorer anymore.
July 8, 2009 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks Psuedo.
July 8, 2009 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have not had any problems with this new fantastic set up I got from Seashell and TPM but Explorer just sucks.
I have not strayed from Firefox Mossilla?
No pop ups.
Yahoo Email just sucks but I am thinking about that.
It is just that in my old 30 gig Dell that crashed forever, Explorer was the single worst experience I ever had on the Web. POP-UPs and all of a sudden I would have six tabs full of crap.
Whether this new set up would be able to incorporate it, I do not know. But thank you for reinforcing my determination to stay the hell away from Explorer.
July 8, 2009 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm also having a helluva time with Yahoo email lately. Error messages popping up when I try to access a folder, long loading times, and then it sometimes forgets all my friends' email addy's when I go to type them in. Just today I was at my inbox and went to compose an email and was suddenly back at the log in page. Yahoo has just been crappy lately.
Firefox rawks. I only use IE when accessing my payables system at work from home. It is unfortunately set to only work from IE. I try to stay away from it.
July 8, 2009 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yahoo scrambled my email contacts and now won't search for any names alphabetically. Then it stole my hat.
July 8, 2009 7:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
You mean that cap with the sweat marks in it that I stole from you last year?? Wow, I wonder if it will show up in my in box....
;)
July 8, 2009 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
If it does show up just send it home will you Lis? It's been raining here for a week and I need my hat.
July 8, 2009 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that both you and dd can switch to Gmail while keeping your Yahoo email address, xxx@yahoo.com. The Yahoo mail will simply come into Gmail and allow you to send and receive from there. No need to go to Yahoo at all once it's set up. And assuming that Yahoo has the export feature, Gmail has an import feature for your address books.
July 8, 2009 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you Seashell, I keep meaning to ask you about this and then forget. Since I do not get that many important emails a month anyway.
I think TheraP was attempting to sell me GMail.
I am going to think about this.
July 8, 2009 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can probably 'come in' and help you set it up, dd!
July 8, 2009 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, Shellie! I'll look into that.
July 8, 2009 7:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
And, yes, thanks, Cy, for this post. Very helpful to those using IE, and kind of you to think of them. Rec'd.
July 8, 2009 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Get
A
Mac
Just sayin'
July 8, 2009 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
PCA this was a wonderful public service.
July 9, 2009 2:07 AM | Reply | Permalink