Surprise surprise, yet another problem with using MSIE (come on Linux owners, time to start gloating )

Seemingly it involves attacks on vulernable IIS webservers (lots of them?) to add some javascript as the default page footer. This creates a page featuring an IFRAME showing a local page (so lower security on it) and injects javascript in from external source to do the dirty work - talk of keyloggers, proxies, the works.

CERT have gone as far as saying MSIE shouldn't be used til patched! :eek: (You could argue that MSIE isn't worth using, period!)

Quick write up on BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3840101.stm

Detailed Analysis: (Might trigger AVG warnings)

http://62.131.86.111/analysis.htm

Symantec Details:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/js.scob.trojan.html

Depending on who you listen to, this is either a critical problem, or one that's not worth worrying about... thought I'd pass it on anyway for some Saturday reading!

*loads up Firefox*

Oh, balls... Why can't they just invent a browser that looks and feels like IE, but just isn't? I've tried all the mainstream ones, but I just can't get used to them...

No critical updates available...:(

Q,

Have been using firefox this weekend, and am quite surprised to find that I really like it. I've not found any sites that it can't display properly, and the tabbed browsing is nice (i.e. open link in a new tab - you remain on current webpage and new tab loads in the background). Will continue to give it a go for now - haven't missed IE so far

FireFox is (at seems to this old MSIE Warrior) a great dela faster/streamlined in it's processing.

I have foudn sites it can't work with terribly well (one of my banks being one of them, or at least one of their functions) and going back in postings here on Briskoda to insert smillies in the text won't work either, it just stuffs them at the end. :confused: (see, i tried to put this on the line with the bank bit after)

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Have been using firefox this weekend, and am quite surprised to find that I really like it. I've not found any sites that it can't display properly, and the tabbed browsing is nice (i.e. open link in a new tab - you remain on current webpage and new tab loads in the background). Will continue to give it a go for now - haven't missed IE so far [/quote']

"Microsoft have confirmed that users of XP service pack 2 (still in beta testing) are immune from this attack"

WTF??!!! so even M$ havent got a patch for this that they are willing to release!.