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    Hooray for another zero-day

    Security researchers have identified an unpatched vulnerability in Windows.
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    The flaw creates a means for hackers to inject malware onto the PCs of surfers running IE who visit a website hosting malicious code that attempts to harness the security bug. Security notification firm Secunia says that the vulnerability is being actively exploited by hackers.
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    How about we just get informed on a week when this doesnt happen ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent View Post
    How about we just get informed on a week when this doesnt happen ?
    Have to agree there.

    Oh well looks like I'm safe, thanks to good ole' Firefox.

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    does it affect IE7 users? If so then it looks like another bug ridden browser from M$ W00t W00t

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    Security researchers have identified an unpatched vulnerability in Windows. The flaw - which affects all supported versions of Windows bar Windows 2003 - resides in a security bug in Microsoft XML Core Services, specifically an unspecified security bug in the XMLHTTP 4.0 ActiveX Control.
    Oh well looks like I'm safe, thanks to good ole' Firefox.
    Firefox still supports ActiveX, so if you were to enable it on an infected site, you just as likely to catch it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sim0n View Post
    Firefox still supports ActiveX, so if you were to enable it on an infected site, you just as likely to catch it.
    firefox only supports activex if you install an experimental and highly disreccomended plugin to do it

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