What to do about the 31 un-patched IE vulnerabilities ???

Ok, so I read that there are 31 un-patched vulnerabilites
in Internet Explorer !!!!

http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/

MICROSOFT - WHAT SHOULD WE DO ????

melvin
Fri Oct 03 15:08:55 CDT 2003

There is no need to SHOUT, when posting within this
Newsgroup. SHOUTING is rude, and uncalled for. Adios!

melvin
>-----Original Message-----
>Ok, so I read that there are 31 un-patched vulnerabilites
>in Internet Explorer !!!!
>
>http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/
>
>MICROSOFT - WHAT SHOULD WE DO ????
>.
>

Me
Fri Oct 03 15:24:00 CDT 2003

Melvin,

in this case SHOUTING is called for! What are you going
to tell your users about the 31 different ways that IE can
be compromised???? Just don't use the Internet????

Microsoft needs to post instructions on how to disable the
holes or provide patches IMMEDIATELLY.


>-----Original Message-----
>There is no need to SHOUT, when posting within this
>Newsgroup. SHOUTING is rude, and uncalled for. Adios!
>
>melvin
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Ok, so I read that there are 31 un-patched
vulnerabilites
>>in Internet Explorer !!!!
>>
>>http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/
>>
>>MICROSOFT - WHAT SHOULD WE DO ????
>>.
>>
>.
>

|{evin
Fri Oct 03 18:10:54 CDT 2003

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 13:24:00 -0700, "Me" <nospam@nospam.not> wrote:

>Melvin,
>
>in this case SHOUTING is called for! What are you going
>to tell your users about the 31 different ways that IE can
>be compromised???? Just don't use the Internet????
>
>Microsoft needs to post instructions on how to disable the
>holes or provide patches IMMEDIATELLY.
>
>

And that's just the ones they know about... what about the rest of
your software... The easiest way to avoid worrying about it is this
nifty device called a firewall.

Me
Fri Oct 03 19:45:45 CDT 2003

Evin,

Sorry to bust your bubble - but a firewall does NOTHING to
prevent IE vulnerablities. One click on a narfarious link
posted on a newsgroup and your machine could have a
keyboard recorder installed - maybe it already does...


>-----Original Message-----
>On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 13:24:00 -0700, "Me"
<nospam@nospam.not> wrote:
>
>>Melvin,
>>
>>in this case SHOUTING is called for! What are you
going
>>to tell your users about the 31 different ways that IE
can
>>be compromised???? Just don't use the Internet????
>>
>>Microsoft needs to post instructions on how to disable
the
>>holes or provide patches IMMEDIATELLY.
>>
>>
>
>And that's just the ones they know about... what about
the rest of
>your software... The easiest way to avoid worrying about
it is this
>nifty device called a firewall.
>
>.
>

mae
Fri Oct 03 20:59:07 CDT 2003

Perhaps there is something you are doing wrong.
None of those exploits occurred for me. What was supposed to happen.
I am glad you posted this .=20
Now I will put little faith in those once in 10 billion or so and =
highly unlikely for me alerts so often published.=20

mae
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|{evin
Fri Oct 03 21:46:06 CDT 2003

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:45:45 -0700, "Me" <nospam@nospam.not> wrote:

>Evin,
>
>Sorry to bust your bubble - but a firewall does NOTHING to
>prevent IE vulnerablities. One click on a narfarious link
>posted on a newsgroup and your machine could have a
>keyboard recorder installed - maybe it already does...
>
>
Good call, that's what I get for not reading carefully. You are
correct, a firewall will not prevent such things as scripting
vulnerabilties... however doing things like disabling scripting in the
browser, running an AV in the background a regular scanning with
something like ad-aware DO help.

I have scripting disabled except for sites I explicitly enable it on,
and always check out suspect links with lynx before opening them in
IE.

As far as a keylogger installed, I doubt it... I've had *1* viral
infection in the last 18 years.... and that was MY fault. I found a
.vbs on my machine from a file-sharing application, got curious,
right-clicked 'open' instead of 'edit' and became a victim of lovebug.