“A security problem originally found in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser has returned to haunt IE7, the new version of the browser launched two weeks ago, a security consultant said Monday,” Jeremy Kirk reports for IDG News Service.
“Danish security consultancy Secunia posted an advisory regarding an issue where an attacker could potentially snare logins and passwords from an unsuspecting IE7 user. Over two years ago, security researchers reported the same fault in IE6,” Kirk reports.
Kirk reports, “If a user visits a Web site specially crafted by an attacker, and then opens a ‘trusted’ site such as a bank or e-commerce site that has a pop-up window, the attacker can put new content into the pop-up, Secunia CTO Thomas Kristensen said. This could enable the attacker to ask a user for financial information or passwords, he said.”
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Use Firefox
Garbage smells quite nice compared to Microsoft’s offerings.
IE7 – what a joke. Has anyone used it yet? I have, and it’s a joke.
I tried it out on a friends pc.. ugh. Firefox or safari for me.
Microsoft is consistently sucky.
That’s all that needs to be said.
Enderle says IE7 is rock solid. So this will come as a shock to him.
Who’s surprised that the smell of insecurity wafts over MS products yet again.
Evidence that Vista will be the same messy hotchpot of a security nightmare.
MS just seem to continue driving more trains into the existing wrecks.
Is it really 2006? Isn’t technology supposed to make it all easier? Why have the fcuked everything up at Redmond?
I’ve tried out IE7 on a friend’s PC – what a buggy piece of crap!!! Even the hard-core Winblows apologists are pissed off at Microsucks for it.
I’m glad it isn’t made for OS X anymore. It’s one less M$ product to cause problems for Apple.
@jay,
Yeh, can you imagine the endless fun of IE7 on OS X. If they did this, then the first virus for OS X would probably take about 20 minutes…
…I hope I haven’t given the Redmond losers any ideas.
IE7…..Vista Engineering preview.
Firefox and Thunderbird on the XP portion of my Mac.
Those who don’t know their (crappy software) history are doomed to repeat it.
Just sent out a notice on incompatibilities with Internet Exploder and our Web based student info system. Literally called it Internet Exploder in my email. Haha. MS sucks.
At least they’re consistent…
Wow – MDN is apparently low enough to besmirch the good name of garbage. I’m SHOCKED!
LOL
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Right back at the ignorant windows-using masses
Please don’t encourage PC users to switch….
The natural law of selection and survival of the fittest and extinction of the inept must be intact.
Do NOT SWITCH. Stay on Windows and make for a breeding ground for malware. Till Windows has at least 30% of the market efforts on other OSes is meaningless: too much to do for little return because of no spreading. Sheer numbers is not a factor, weakness is. Windows is an easy prey and predator choose the weak ones among flocks and herds of strong elements.