Well agian thank you for proving my point and showing me how defensive /.ers get about thier OS. I seen countless systems in my enviroment running as such but I guess there just honest to god users so there safe :). No worries

The biased /.er. It doesn't matter that it was a 8 year old really bad exploit. If it was MS this post would have been on the same day as it was found and everyone laughing at how lame Win is. Not for the /.ers. Nope focus on the fact the article didn't get posted here till today and that "hey, look its already been patched way back in april of this year no worries WE WIN!!

You can do both and well not easy will secure IE from bad Active x controls. Use Group Policy and if it is Windows XP home downlaod the file or get the file from a windows xp Pro box. The file is gpedit.msc. Then if you l;ook in IE and manage Add-Ons and enable or disable so a list appears. Then right click the header and select to show class id. You will want to write down all the active x controls class ids and I know its a pain. Once you have them all written down then use group policy and enter them into either the computer config or the user config. I would suggest user config/admin templates/Windows components/Internet Explorer/Add-on managment and tell the computer to run the ones you have deifined. There problem solved from here on out. Yes updated active x class ids for maybe flash or java can be a pain but thats if your running those apps. If you mostly use FF then you should only be approving ones to finish your coursework. Then no matter what no bogus active x can run becasue it does not have permission to. Been doing this ever since XP came out and never had a bogus Active x control take over my machine.

While I understand many of the hate and anger the people of the 80s and 90s carry and cannot seem to get ride of for MS. I think it's misplaced. Instead of attacking for choice attack all the companies that still do not support alternate browsers. No one will choose a different browser if say there School, Bank or whatever does not code for any browser but IE. They will immediately go back to IE because it works. Seeing past your noses works well in this kind of situation. The Eu jsut wants something like Opera to be placed there but no one understands that the population chooses and most people will not change there bank or whatever just because there browser doesnt work, they will change browsers back to IE if that has always worked for them.

I think it has been said countless times. A reboot of IE is because IE is closely intgrated with the OS. When you have this IE's rendering engine is used for office and windows explorer and many other apps thats are not microsoft branded. The reboot assures that the file was fully unloaded from memory and patched. I am aginst firefoxes approach of start firefox install an update only becasue I thought we learned our lessen that sometimes a patch can break alot more than what was supposed to be fixed. Yes that came about becasue of Microsoft but I have had a few linx updates that I have had to roll out of becasue of an unknown bug. But with Microsoft's patch mangment I can choose which updates to apply and choose them all knowing the OS and a browser is patched in one swipe of the hand. If Firefox would get off there arses and develope a coporate patch mangmewnt system then more people might jump up and show favour for it. But as far as I am concerned, I am not going to pay for an msi and developing one after every 2 week release times of FF is a bigger pain. I know version 3 has not been plagued with many updates but when FF v2 came out they were patching every 2 or 3 weeks and this is not an acceptable patching method for coporate people. Even though I do write an msi many corps will not and throw FF out the door.

It was more along the lines of any part of the US goverment telling anyone they have bad documentation on anything.