Funny how most say that Macs or Linux is the most secure platform when in fact it has not been exercised???. At least Redmond are working on a patch to fix it.

With that said open source is a good alternative but don't expect to work out of the box like windows or macs.

To be fair on the comparison of how things works around here. Reason why hackers or spammers whatever you call them are not interested in these platform is because the fact that why go after a small portion if you can get a much bigger target.

Also the reason why apples are soo dam expensive is 1. their proprietary hardware that for some reason you CAN'T run osx nothing but a apple.

2.at that price it better be secure thats whats keeping apple going.

Now the reason why windows gets bombarded like there is no tomorrow because windows is universal platform. You can always upgrade at any given time especially for GAMING, and also a bigger target.

I find it funny how people have to use bootcamp to run WINDOWS on a mac just to play games LOL!!. In fact i won't even comment on that.

So much of "hi i am a Mac/ I am a PC comercials" right guys.

And lastly PC's are way cheaper and get more out of your buck than those ridiculously hold my hand steve job and i pay anything for a mac will ever provide lol.

Only catch there is you gotta know what you doing and only someone that does not know about computers that much will fall into these obvious traps.

JP

Hi guis, wat's going on here ?

Is that a windows exploit that has gotten Microsoft running scared ? Is that exploit already being used in the wild by hackers to pw0n your fully patched and up to date windows machine ?

What, you can actually get your pc pw0ned by just visiting a website even though your windows is fully patched and up to date ?

Tell me it isn't so !!? Cause i remember a loooong thread not too long ago where a lot of users on this board were denying that such things happen in the windows world and bashed me as being a troll, a liar etc etc...

Care to comment on this guys ? Any of you trolls out there(you know who you are) wanna say something ?

Adi

Time to stick Ubuntu and firefox.
Biggest MIstake MS. Bring IE main component of Windows OS.
What a Pitty several years ago they havent patched some of the main exploits months and nobody care . Business as usual they made tons of money. Why is rush now ?

Until the fix comes out, Microsoft cautions to watch out for instant-message file transfers and e-mail attachments.

Elsewhere in that announcement it mentions, as is common with other exploits, that you can be infected by visiting a website, and several major news sites have indicated that many "popular" and "safe" websites have been compromised, and can infect your PC. (Wouldn't that be just the cherry on the cake if I got infected by TR?)

This can cause Internet Explorer to exit unexpectedly, in a state that is exploitable.

I have already observed this behavior in Internet Explorer, so, despite my hardware firewall, highly-rated software firewall and anti-virus suite, and Vista's own supposedly increased security features, I guess I'm already infected. So what I'd really like to know is if this upcoming patch is going to remove whatever what got in through the hole, or just close the hole, leaving the exploit-injected malware in place.

TR just crashed for me.

Chrome runs all tab in as their own process which are ran with limited permissions. Even if there was an exploit, it would only mess up the process and gain privileges lower than required to do harm... in theory

I'm just happy I've been on the Firefox bandwagon now for years. If you run FF make sure you have No Script installed! That way you can enable which sites get to run Scripts and which don't.

I dont use Safari crapola. Lets see how Chrome does.