WARNING: Stop using Microsoft's IE browser

Started by Solar, April 30, 2014, 05:21:22 PM

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Solar

In rare move that highlights severity of security hole in popular Internet Explorer, US Computer Emergency Readiness Team and UK counterpart say some IE users may want to "consider employing an alternate browser" till flaw is patched.

It's not often that the US or UK governments weigh in on the browser wars, but a new Internet Explorer vulnerability -- one that affects all major versions of the browser from the past decade -- has forced them to raise an alarm: Stop using IE.

The zero-day exploit -- the term given to a previously unknown, unpatched flaw -- allows attackers to install malware on your computer without your permission. That malware could be used to steal personal data, track online behavior, or gain control of the computer. Security firm FireEye, which discovered the bug, said that the flaw is being used with a known Flash-based exploit technique to attack financial and defense organizations in the US via Internet Explorer 9, 10, and 11. Those versions of the browser run on Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8, although the exploit is present in Internet Explorer 6 and above.

While the Computer Emergency Readiness Team in England and the US regularly issue browser advisories, this is one of the few times that the CERT team has recommended that people avoid using a particular browser. Specifically, the advisory says administrators and users should "review Microsoft Security Advisory 2963983 for mitigation actions and workarounds" and that people who can't implement those stopgap measures, Windows XP users among them, "may consider employing an alternate browser."

FireEye recommends that if you can't switch browsers, then disable Internet Explorer's Flash plug-in. You also can use IE with Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) security app, but that will not be as secure as simply switching browsers.
http://www.cnet.com/news/stop-using-ie-until-bug-is-fixed-says-us/
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Solar, have you been using this Iron browser?
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Solar

Quote from: taxed on April 30, 2014, 06:22:27 PM
Solar, have you been using this Iron browser?
Wasn't it based on Chrome? If it's the same 0ne, it failed miserably for me, way too many issue and conflicts.
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Quote from: Solar on April 30, 2014, 07:33:57 PM
Wasn't it based on Chrome? If it's the same 0ne, it failed miserably for me, way too many issue and conflicts.

Damn.....  I wish you could get it to work because it is fast as shit.  The speed is beyond noticeable.  Websites load instantly.  It really opened my eyes to how much tracking and malware crap these browsers are loaded up with.  When it is just point to point, it is instant.

What is it conflicting with?  It is standalone so shouldn't depend on anything...
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Microsoft Issues Fix For Major Internet Explorer Bug

Microsoft issued a security patch at 1 p.m. ET Thursday to fix a serious bug in Internet Explorer, the company said in a blog post.

Customers who have automatic updates enabled won't need to take any action, but Microsoft encouraged users without that service "to apply this update as quickly as possible."

Microsoft also decided to issue a fix for Windows XP users, even though the company dropped support of that operating system earlier this month.


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I switched to Firefox years ago. MS had neglected IE6 a long time and I got sick of its vulnerability to spyware. When MS released IE7, it had no feature that made me want to switch back. I tried Chrome a couple years ago, not very successfully. I went back to Ff. After Mozilla recently hung that exec out for the noisy gay hate activists to beat like a piƱata I switched to Opera. It works fine and is faster than Ff.
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Try the Epic browser for speed and privacy. It loads fast, works faster,. and stops a ton of tracking software.