Filed under: Internet, Security, Windows, Microsoft
A new Big Ugly Exploit for Internet Explorer
by Jordan Running Mar 24th 2006 at 11:25AM
Microsoft has confirmed that a newly-discovered
vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer that the security companies are calling "significant" and
"highly critical." Of course, you won't find such scary language on Microsoft's milquetoast advisory page, but the vulnerability (for
which researchers have released proof-of-concept exploit code), allows malicious web sites to run arbitrary code on
victims' machines. No patch exists, but Microsoft says an effective workaround is to disable Active Scripting in IE and
that Outlook and Outlook Express are not vulnerable. Patch Tuesday is April 11, and it's unlikely that we'll see a fix
from Microsoft until then.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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