![]() Microsoft corporation chose the latter: “as an exception” it patched the vulnerability in all affected versions of Internet Explorer, providing an update for all versions of Windows XP too.Īnd it got slammed for that, just as expected: “The decision to release this patch is a mistake,” said Ars Technica, saying that such one-off “exceptions” do not make Internet Explorer on Windows XP any safer. In any case it was going to get slammed for either leaving millions of users in the cold or for indulging people who do nothing to protect themselves. Microsoft had to choose: to stick to its decision to cease Windows XP support or to make an exception. The company had a tough choice: to stick to its earlier decision to cease Windows XP support and tell its (millions of) remaining users to help themselves and to upgrade at last, or give them a hand – as a contingency measure. Microsoft found itself in hot water with this. Department of Homeland Security even advised not to use Internet Explorer until the patch is in place. In other words it isn’t a pleasant situation: The U.S. This is made possible with Internet Explorer because Flash runs within the same process space as the browser.” CERT also acknowledges that exploitation without the use of Flash may be possible, even though disabling a Flash plugin in IE is one of the workarounds for the problem. According to CERT’s description, “the Internet Explorer vulnerability is used to corrupt Flash content in a way that allows ASLR to be bypassed via a memory address leak. In short, by convincing a user to view a specially crafted HTML document attackers are able to execute an arbitrary code in the system. There is a large amount of technical data on the vulnerability itself. It really didn’t take long before a new version of the exploit was discovered, this time targeting Windows XP machines running Internet Explorer 8. Apparently, it was FireEye that discovered those attacks in the first place.Īccording to FireEye’s data, the initial attack targeted users of IE versions 9, 10, and 11 on Windows 7 and 8, although the vulnerability actually affected all versions of IE from 6 to 11. On April 26, 2014, Microsoft notified its customers of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer along with a zero-day exploit that has already been used in the wild – in “limited, targeted attacks”. Now it looks like those doom-spellers were right: it didn’t take long before a new bug affecting Windows XP was discovered: a vulnerability present in all, more or less, current versions of Internet Explorer. Without technical support from Microsoft, there will be no new patches for these bugs, so they can be exploited indefinitely, and this is actually a threat to everyone, not just Windows XP aficionados. Windows XP may have been discarded by Microsoft, but there are still millions of people using it, which means that malware writers and hackers are going to look hard for new bugs and vulnerabilities to exploit. Just before this happened, many voices were predicting doom, and, frankly, there was at least some merit in their arguments. And it did.Īs we all know, as of April 8th, 2014 Windows XP has ‘officially’ gone off into the sunset: it’s no longer supported by Microsoft. Microsoft had to deal with a new less-than-pleasant vulnerability in Internet Explorer browser, which affected all of its versions starting with IE6 in all of its operational systems including the recently ‘discarded’ Windows XP. This entry was posted in Internet Explorer, paris hilton, random updates by neozeed. And it’s far easier to navigate with alt keys a native app, then something in a VM. Which makes it impossible to select anything from a drop down list, like ISO’s, networks disks etc.īut now with this version of IE10 you can quickly known it down to IE 7, or 5 and get… ![]() ![]() So what is useful about being able to quickly shift rendering engines? Well if you still have any Virtual Server 2005 installs, is that you have to admin them from Internet Explorer, and IE 8 and beyond have broken the admin interface like this: Like some things, neither one of them will go away. Which initially I was about to joke about and. So rest assured you can load up IE6, and hit MSN for your daily Paris Hilton fix. Thankfully they haven’t pulled the plug on new IE 6 installs. But notice how IE 6.0 is left out? I wonder if this has anything to do with it?Īt any rate, I loaded up a Windows NT 4.0 VM with IE 5.5, and precoded to install IE 6.0 out of solidarity. Holding down the alt key, and pressing 5,7,8,9,0 will let you choose IE 5-10. And if you are on Windows I’d recommend it for the ability of the test drive to quickly change rendering engines. Yes they did just release 9, but they are already working on version 10! So right now you can download the ‘test drive’ version of Internet Explorer 10 right here.
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