“Why has this post not been updated?”

You want to ask that question a few more times? Some people might not have gotten the “message” yet. The “message”: you really, really care that IE is seen in a positive light. Thank goodness most folks are less focused on positive PR for MS. *shrug*

OpenGL and Glide died, dude.

Tell that to Sony. And NVidia. And Apple. And the entire SIGGRAPH community. And well, everyone except Microsoft.

Regarding I.E., never make a web-browser that doubles as a system shell. It leads to crap like this. When designing a web-browser, you might want to make it a web-browser and nothing more.

Relax, then. More money for you.

ddrintn on December 18, 2008 at 10:33 PM

This is about having to waste time explaining basic computer security to people who read alarmist nonsense like this and very little to do with making any money.

Are you a Microsoft employee by any chance?

ddrintn on December 18, 2008 at 9:35 PM

Nope I have just been IT for over 15 years and these sort of hysterical alarmist posts do nothing but give me more work to do “fixing” non existent problems.

Poptech on December 18, 2008 at 10:04 PM

Relax, then. More money for you.

Are you a Microsoft employee by any chance?

ddrintn on December 18, 2008 at 9:35 PM

Nope I have just been IT for over 15 years and these sort of hysterical alarmist posts do nothing but give me more work to do “fixing” non existent problems.

Why has this post not been updated?

Microsoft out-of-band security update for Internet Explorer

Poptech on December 18, 2008 at 8:15 PM

Are you a Microsoft employee by any chance?

I ran Windows Update manually, thinking that I might not need to, but even though the alleged automatic update feature was confirmed to be on, I had to get the IE patch myself.

corona on December 18, 2008 at 1:53 PM

First you have to confirm it was on and enabled (it is on any Windows XP system with SP2 or higher) however the default settings (unless changed) will not install the update until 3:00am in the morning. I have seen plenty of systems with this disabled or changed from the defaults by the user or someone “helping” the user. Certain worthless “tweaking” applications can also disable this as well.

Sometimes… two or three times a year. That’s Microsoft, their motto is…. “We don’t care, we don’t have to.”

Maxx on December 18, 2008 at 8:47 PM

Microsoft cares which is why they have been releasing security updates monthly since 2003 and out of band patches for critical issues like this immediately.

Microsoft releases monthly security fixes (ZDNet, 2003)

Doesn’t this “news story” happen once a year?

SouthernGent on December 18, 2008 at 8:22 PM

Sometimes… two or three times a year. That’s Microsoft, their motto is…. “We don’t care, we don’t have to.”

As long as Active X lives in IE, IE will be nothing but a virus/troll/intrusion/hacker superhighway. Active X is inherently flawed: it allows a user access to absolutely anything/everything with NO AUTHENTICATION WHATSOEVER!!!

There is no way to “fix” this, because it is flawed at the architectural level. It must be blown to smithereens, the pieces junked, and the entire browser desing started over again: but this time with a sound architecture. Oh, wait: we’ve already got that! It’s called FireFox!!

landlines on December 18, 2008 at 8:15 PM

Please stop spreading bullshit myths based on your absolute lack of understanding of computer systems.

The Lame Blame of ActiveX (eWeek)
http://www.FirefoxMyths.com

Microsoft out-of-band security update for Internet Explorer

There is no way to “fix” this, because it is flawed at the architectural level. It must be blown to smithereens, the pieces junked, and the entire browser desing started over again: but this time with a sound architecture. Oh, wait: we’ve already got that! It’s called FireFox!!

Install the Firefox extension named IETab.

tom on December 18, 2008 at 3:52 PM

IE Tab is hardly safe.

A bunch of those are for older versions. What kind of dishonest crap are you trying to pull?

TheUnrepentantGeek on December 18, 2008 at 11:49 AM

Nothing dishonest about it, those are all the vulnerabilities since the browser was released. My point is it is not the security meca people claim it is.

Firefox 3.x has had 39 vulnerabilities with 1 unpatched.

I have to confess that I have been an online bisexual (IE7 and Firefox), now updated Firefox to 3 and it is pretty good! Where do I set up default browser? Cannot let go of IE because of Windows Mobile.

If there is any way I can download stuff that IE takes but on Firefox I’ll really appreciate it!

Also my notebook disappears from time to time the DVD drive. Drives me nuts!!!!! I downloaded a whole Barbie movie from YouTube and I can’t burn it because it is missing! Opens, closes, seems to read and it’s not anywhere in system/device manager/computer/etc., etc. Will go to regedit and see if I can check whassup with the codes. Same issue with BIOS.

HP Pavilion; any techie please help. Thanks!

ProudPalinFan on December 17, 2008 at 10:21 PM

Install the Firefox extension named IETab. Once installed, you can right-click any web page in Firefox and select “View in IE.” You can also right-click any web page in IE and select “View in Firefox.”

You can also load a web page in IE that displays in a Firefox tab. In effect, Firefox is able to render pages with the IE engine in a tab.

And the best trick: you can configure it to always open certain web sites in one or the other. So if you use Firefox as your primary browser as all right-thinking people do, but have a particular web site that only works with IE, you can configure Firefox to use IE’s rendering engine anytime you open that site.

OK, is the stupid Linux/Windows pissing match at an end? Never have so many characters been typed and so little been communicated.

Troj on December 17, 2008 at 5:31 PM

New to the internet?

Um ever since XP SP2 Windows automatic updates have turned on by default and windows will auto install the patch.

Nope.

I ran Windows Update manually, thinking that I might not need to, but even though the alleged automatic update feature was confirmed to be on, I had to get the IE patch myself.

I wasn’t mad about any vulnerabilities, just how slow and crash-prone the darn thing was.

Microsoft has released a patch for Internet Explorer – get it via Windows update.

corona on December 18, 2008 at 12:57 PM

Fedora has released a patch for Windows too. Fixes it right up.

Microsoft has released a patch for Internet Explorer – get it via Windows update.

A bunch of those are for older versions. What kind of dishonest crap are you trying to pull?

TheUnrepentantGeek on December 18, 2008 at 11:49 AM

+3.05 (the current version of FF)

try 400 Vulnerabilities

Poptech on December 18, 2008 at 11:39 AM

A bunch of those are for older versions. What kind of dishonest crap are you trying to pull?