• MS11-050 being exploited – don’t use Internet Explorer!

    Posted on June 18, 2011 at 06:52 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Gregg Keizer at Computerworld reports that Symantec has seen targeted attacks in the wild that go after the hole just plugged this week by Microsoft’s MS11-050 security bulletin.

    The hole affects IE 6, 7 and 8 – which is significant because IE 8 is widely thought to be relatively impervious to exploits. (I said “relatively”, yes?)

    Anyway, you have four choices: Install IE 9 (which I’ve been recommending for months now); install MS11-050 [typo fixed – sorry – WL], which is another monster Internet Explorer patch; disable JavaScript; or use any browser other than IE (which I’ve been recommending for many years, eh?).

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