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#1 Ironsight

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 09:58 PM

So, I guess there's been a problem with hackers redirecting IE users to virus-ridden sites. Discuss.

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 10:02 PM

Internet Explorer has a hole in it's security?! NO ****ING WAY.
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Posted 16 December 2008 - 10:10 PM

No surprise there. Silly little IE users. Trix is for Firefox users.

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 10:15 PM

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/thumb/6/6f/Toolbars.png/757px-Toolbars.png

I accidentally my toolbars, is this bad?

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 10:17 PM

Goddammit, how do I open tabs with Firefox?

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Posted 16 December 2008 - 10:23 PM

CTRL+T does it in Firefox.

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Posted 17 December 2008 - 01:37 PM

IE is also very slow for me, Firefox all the way

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Posted 17 December 2008 - 06:26 PM

Apparently the hole's been there since IE7 was released, and if you visit one of the 10,000 affected sites it pretty much gives them total control over your system.

A patch came out a few hours ago, getting it now.

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Posted 17 December 2008 - 06:31 PM

Miley Cyrus, on Dec 16 2008, 08:17 PM, said:

Goddammit, how do I open tabs with Firefox?

Clicking a link with the middle mouse button or CTRL + click will open the link in a new tab

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Posted 18 December 2008 - 04:25 AM

w/e

10,000 infected sites? What is that, like, .00000001%of teh intarnets?

Chances are that if you're not looking for porno, you're perfectly safe, because I'd be safe in assuming that 90% of those 10,000 are pr0nz.

ANYWAY. I'm a fascist conservative ******* that doesn't like change. Therefore, Firefox can suck mah bawls.

....unless I'm using Linux. Then FF is pretty much the only way to go, 'cause everything else sucks/doesn't work.

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Posted 18 December 2008 - 04:57 AM

Toasty, on Dec 18 2008, 09:25 PM, said:

10,000 infected sites? What is that, like, .00000001%of teh intarnets?

Chances are that if you're not looking for porno, you're perfectly safe, because I'd be safe in assuming that 90% of those 10,000 are pr0nz.

Well it's affected at least two million computers, so...

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Posted 18 December 2008 - 05:28 AM

That's because at least two million computers were looking at pr0n.

Or were being used by incredibly stupid people.

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Posted 18 December 2008 - 05:39 AM

They can be any website the hacker wants them to be.

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Posted 18 December 2008 - 10:30 AM

Only a retarded hacker wouldn't use a porn site as the base. They're one of the most traffic'd types of sites. People who visit porn sites on a regular basis have a greater risk of infecting their computer with a virus than those that don't.

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Posted 18 December 2008 - 02:50 PM

If I wanted to spread a trojan I'd use placeholder sites, they probably get way more traffic.

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Posted 18 December 2008 - 11:54 PM

Do you realise how much traffic porn sites get? The only thing outpacing them are social networking sites, and this is only recently.

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Posted 19 December 2008 - 12:14 AM

That's only the popular ones. If a hacker tried to make a porn site it would barely get any traffic, but make a page with a copyrighted term or commonly-used word as the domain and bam, instant hits.

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Posted 19 December 2008 - 12:29 AM

Split Infinity, on Dec 18 2008, 10:14 PM, said:

That's only the popular ones. If a hacker tried to make a porn site it would barely get any traffic, but make a page with a copyrighted term or commonly-used word as the domain and bam, instant hits.

Do you realise how often the word "Porn" is googled?

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Posted 19 December 2008 - 12:35 AM

Yes.

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Posted 25 December 2008 - 07:53 PM

They also register domains with typos of popular sites. Like "facbook" or something along those lines. It's a popular keylogging technique =\

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Posted 28 December 2008 - 11:53 AM

Hmm....
I didn't know IE had a hole...
Anyone know if microsoft doing anything about it?
Or any of the infected websites?...

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Posted 28 December 2008 - 03:19 PM

The hole was fixed a while ago (not very long after the discovery of it.

And IE is chock full of holes. Why do you thnk Microsoft is constanly releasing updates for it?

I only still use IE because I'm a stubborn capitalistic *******.

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Posted 28 December 2008 - 08:31 PM

Toasty, on Dec 28 2008, 05:19 PM, said:

I only still use IE because I'm a stubborn capitalistic *******.

How does this make any sense? Surely if you were a "stubborn capitalistic *******", you would encourage more competition by choosing the higher quality service?

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Posted 28 December 2008 - 08:58 PM

I guess that makes the Wii communist...

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Posted 28 December 2008 - 10:08 PM

Golden Legacy, on Dec 28 2008, 06:31 PM, said: