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Meltdown · 04-16-2004, 05:02 PM

Getting pop-ups, gatored, and other BS apps installed on your computer that you know for a fact you didn't say OK to? Still getting them even after locking down your firewall and you security settings in IE and OL? Here is why:

http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/

Turns out there is a bug in IE/OL that is a VERY old bug that has not been patched by MS yet, and allows webpage programmers to force your system to run commands, install software, etc. regardless of your security settings. There is a registry change you can do to work around the issue, but man I wish Micro$haft would get on the ball and fix this shit, and that the gov't would pass some digital security rights preventing people from loading anything on your machine without your expressed permission under the penalty of getting a swift kick in the balls.

04-16-2004, 05:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
Meltdown Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 400	Security Advisory Getting pop-ups, gatored, and other BS apps installed on your computer that you know for a fact you didn't say OK to? Still getting them even after locking down your firewall and you security settings in IE and OL? Here is why: http://www.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm001-ie/ Turns out there is a bug in IE/OL that is a VERY old bug that has not been patched by MS yet, and allows webpage programmers to force your system to run commands, install software, etc. regardless of your security settings. There is a registry change you can do to work around the issue, but man I wish Micro$haft would get on the ball and fix this shit, and that the gov't would pass some digital security rights preventing people from loading anything on your machine without your expressed permission under the penalty of getting a swift kick in the balls.