[4680] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Big IE hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lehmann (SSASyd))
Thu Mar 6 02:02:33 1997
From: "John Lehmann (SSASyd)" <LEHMANNJ@saatchi.com.au>
To: "'www-security'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 16:15:00 S
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>This is just the kind of marketing double-talk that p*sses me off the
most.
>SO WHAT, if M$ has not received customer reports of exploits as yet!!
This is
>a *HUGE* hole - M$ should just buckle down, and fix it fast. Then, they
can
>talk about how no one was hurt by it before they fixed it....
>
>It sounds like they are insinuating that the problem is not a big deal.
It
>is!
Probably rates as the biggest security hole in a web-browser so far, eh?
From www.shareware.com today:
>Highlights:
>
>Plug the hole
> Internet Explorer 3.0 and 3.01 users: Download the
> patch that will fix a security breach in your Windows
> 95/NT browser.
Time to move on, again.
--
John "www.double-talk.com - I like it :)"Lehmann
