Day 16 - Films and Internet Explorer
As we covered a couple of days ago, television and films are highly popular at Christmas, but, frankly there’s nothing to say about them really, watch the Home Alone box set and all will be reet.
Moving on, users of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and any other non Internet explorer based browser should be feeling very smug tonight, as Internet explorer has been cocked up royal once again. Yes the browser which my grandma uses, has quite a big hole in it. The exploit was discovered by Chinese criminals, stealing passwords from computer games. But since it was discovered, other criminals are trying to make use of it for more than breaking in to peoples Runescape accounts.
It was reported late last week and Microsoft are working on a fix, and they might (just might?) release an urgent update to quickly fix the problem before the whole world (or 69% of it anyway) get infected.
Industry Big Wigs have been encouraging people to get Firefox, as they do when any such opportunity arises. However, because we like IE, we don’t think this is too necessary, but certainly some common sense would assist. Keep your anti virus up to date, get your updates as they come, and be careful when entering in passwords. You’ll see when/if the exploit kicks in to action because your browser will unexpectedly close and reopen. Best thing to combat it is to run IE on its highest security settings and excercise caution with which sites you access.
Update: As of 6pm tonight (presumably Seattle time), an update is being issued to rectify the issue and maintain security when using IE.


