Microsoft to patch zero-day exploit among five others

User Comments: 2

1. November 9, 2006 8:09 PM
   9Nails said:
   Each patch seems to release a new batch of infections. I wish there was some way to prevent this patch Tuesdays and attack of the script kiddies Wednesdays.
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2. November 10, 2006 1:49 PM
   ThomasNews said:
   "The flaw was discovered just a few days ago". Errm, not exactly.[url]http://secunia.com/blog/2/[/url];"On Monday 30th October, Secunia published an advisory describing a vulnerability in IE7, which appears to be a legacy from IE6 - and which back in 2004 turned out to affect virtually every single browser on the market... In 2004 the organisations behind Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Konqueror, OmniWeb, and Safari all confirmed the "Windows Injection" issue to be avulnerability and subsequently issued fixes for this issue... Microsoft writes in their blog that they didn't consider this to be a vulnerability back in 2004 because it potentially could break functionality on websites!... We believe that Microsoft ought to take responsibility for the bugs, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities in their browser to ensure that it really protects against phishing and similar scam attacks - isn't this what Microsoft advertises that IE7 does better than it's predecessors?"[url]http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/200
   /10/31/information-on-address-bar-issue.aspx[/url];"The newly reported issue is actually a repeat of an issue reported in 2004."[Edited by ThomasNews on 2006-11-10 13:52:58]
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