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Microsoft offers Fix It tool for serious IE8 security issue

article published on 9 May, 2013

Microsoft is offering a Fix It tool for concerned users of Internet Explorer 8 that addresses a security vulnerability being exploited in the wild. The flaw (CVE-​2013-​1347) was exploited as part of an attack on the U.S. Department of Labor's website and its users. Visitors who were running the vulnerable Internet Explorer 8 browser had their computers infected with malicious software. ... [ read the full article ]

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1nsan3
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_ 		10. May 2013 @ 16:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Holy shit!! people still use IE wow. must be the ones who first started using the internet way back in the old 28.8 modem days lol

no no no dont upgrade to better, just keep that old shitty 266mhz cpu!!! along with IE. hell use the old NETSCAPE atleast ya wont get a fuckin exploit lol.
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Whisperer
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_ 		11. May 2013 @ 04:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Golly, yuk, I jus cane't wait ta get home and tell the wife I read a post from a tech snob.
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Interestx
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_ 		11. May 2013 @ 10:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Beats me why some people have to see the world in such silly black & white terms.
I use IE8, Chrome & Firefox.
All of them have their flaws and none of them are perfect.
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