..oh Microsoft...

Post by **evasive** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:08 am

what have you done.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/27 ... re_attack/

you have designed an inherently unsafe OS and browser back in the day and now you are paying the price for it...

c327 · Post by **c327** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:38 am

Now that scares me...........

Post by **evasive** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:42 am

It should. So you keep your antivirus/anti-malware stuff updated and don't just click away everywhere. That is the reason for posting. If it had been FF I'd post it just as well...

thomas_w_bowman · Post by **thomas_w_bowman** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:15 am

Well, we should be safe - since M$ ... "isn't aware of it being exploited in the wild."

Too bad many of those features are used heavily by Advertising... but are useful too often to disable.

AmEv · Post by **AmEv** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:47 pm

And that is why, mon fereds when I took my brother's laptop HDDs to one of my friends (to salvage the data), he found 5+ viruses (virii?).... each HDD. And he wondered why his lappies were so slow, in spite of having ~2GB procys.

He saw a text box, and clicked away without reading.