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Microsoft Says Upgrade To IE8, Even Though It's Vulnerable 279

Barence writes "Microsoft has issued a statement urging people to upgrade their browser to IE8, after the zero-day exploit that was used to attack companies such as Google went public. According to Microsoft's security advisory: 'the vulnerability exists as an invalid pointer reference within Internet Explorer. It is possible under certain conditions for the invalid pointer to be accessed after an object is deleted. In a specially-crafted attack, in attempting to access a freed object, Internet Explorer can be caused to allow remote code execution.' But, although IE6 has been the source of the attacks until now, Microsoft's advisory admits that both IE7 and IE8 are vulnerable to the same flaw, even on Windows 7."

Comment No game series deserves a reboot like this one: (Score 1) 1120

Registered for the article's original site just to answer the question at the end. I'm an old school gamer. Hands down, no questions asked, if any series EVER needed a reboot, there's only one to pick. The old "Might and Magic" role-playing series. Responsible for the more popular "Heroes of might and magic", this series, especially around games 6 and 7, included some of the most killer spells, weapons, and a HUGE world, especially for the time. From thief classes and assasins to Caveliers and Arch-druids, Liches, whether your party was half goblin warriors, or all dwarven villians, the game was nonstop fun. I kept going back to become a spy, cleanse a cursed temple, kidnap the princess, or help the necromancers destroy the kreegan devils. Imagine an action RPG that you can pause into a turn-based RPG, swappable from a 1person to a 3rd person view, change it up so you have full control, perhaps something like KOTOR did... its a spectacular game series that was ahead of it's own graphics programmers. If any genre needs new life, its the Might and Magic RPG games. God how I'd pay to see MM6 and MM7 reborn.

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