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MicroSoft does it again...

Shaun.BebbingtonShaun.Bebbington
edited December 2008 in Chit chat
I've just heard on BBC News of a fairly substantial security bug on IE7, although I don't know any details.

I'm sooo glad that M$ have the monopoly on the PC market, aren't you?

Regards,

Shaun.
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  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited December 2008
    Whats all that signature stuff about, and why did you stop doing stuff for Retro Gamer?
  • mjwilsonmjwilson
    edited December 2008
    To be fair, all the browsers have security bugs.

    This is just one that we happen to know about, which is being actively exploited, and which looks scarier than usual.
  • Shaun.BebbingtonShaun.Bebbington
    edited December 2008
    MrCheese wrote: »
    Whats all that signature stuff about, and why did you stop doing stuff for Retro Gamer?
    The signature was a question posed by Chris Boyo.

    And why does it matter that I stopped doing 'stuff' for Retro Gamer?

    Regards,

    Shaun.
  • BigBadMickBigBadMick
    edited December 2008
    Yes, that's all well and good Shaun, but why did you stop doing stuff for Retro-Gamer?

    :D
  • chop983chop983
    edited December 2008
    Perhaps a bug in IE7 stopped him getting on-line.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited December 2008
    yeahi heard onthe news on the radio today about a "security flaw" in internet explorer, tbh i think it'd be news if they DIDNT find a security flaw in it.
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  • milemile
    edited December 2008
    i really don't see why they'd put something like this in one of their programs. bit of one step forward one step back for them.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited December 2008
    mile wrote: »
    i really don't see why they'd put something like this in one of their programs. bit of one step forward one step back for them.
    EH?
    its not something theyve put in, its a hole, thats the problem, its something they HAVENT put in
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  • milemile
    edited December 2008
    mel the bell wrote: »
    EH?
    its not something theyve put in, its a hole, thats the problem, its something they HAVENT put in

    thats even worse!!! i hope they recall them all and give everyone their money back.
  • mermanmerman
    edited December 2008
    Actually, the figures now show that less than 70% of users have stuck with IE, with many now using a different browser...
  • ADJBADJB
    edited December 2008
    MS are releasing an "out of sequence" patch for this bug tomorrow.

    All the IE pron surfers will once again be safe until the next time.
  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited December 2008
    Shaun.Bebbington wrote: »
    The signature was a question posed by Chris Boyo.

    And why does it matter that I stopped doing 'stuff' for Retro Gamer?

    Regards,

    Shaun.

    Thanks for the illuminating reply. The word "Boyo" at the end is a massive clue. Sorry for enquiring why you don't write for a magazine I enjoy any more, stupid me and my curiosity. Sounds like a subject you don't want to mention, but do, because it's in your sig. Weird. Now I'm illuminated and confused.
  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited December 2008
    Thats me told then. My bad.
  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited December 2008
    Right that does it, sod the internet and Microsofts blunderbus. From now on I shall be buying things from shops in a high street, get Razzle again from the newsagent (I stopped because he got a girl working in there), buy a newspaper and go down the pub only half as much as I check my email. That should sort me out. :)
  • mermanmerman
    edited December 2008
    aowen wrote: »
    There are two reasons writers usually stop writing for magazines:

    1) The magazine fails to pay [enough to pay the rent | on time | at all] (delete as applicable) .
    2) The editor takes a dislike to the writer.

    No idea what the case is here but it's between the writer and the magazine and is nobody else's business, even if the writer chooses to allude to it in a sig.

    It's more complicated than that...
  • milemile
    edited December 2008
    Fudgepacker wrote: »
    Right that does it, sod the internet and Microsofts blunderbus. From now on I shall be buying things from shops in a high street, get Razzle again from the newsagent (I stopped because he got a girl working in there), buy a newspaper and go down the pub only half as much as I check my email. That should sort me out. :)

    i bought some porn off a woman in a shop, she put them in a brown paper bag without even asking me, now that's service.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited December 2008
    mile wrote: »
    i bought some porn off a woman in a shop, she put them in a brown paper bag without even asking me, now that's service.
    Did she not put a complimentary pack of tissues in the bag as well?
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • milemile
    edited December 2008
    karingal wrote: »
    Did she not put a complimentary pack of tissues in the bag as well?

    i don't think the word complimentary ever enters the head of shop keepers.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited December 2008
    mile wrote: »
    i don't think the word complimentary ever enters the head of shop keepers.
    She didn't charge you for the bag did she?
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • milemile
    edited December 2008
    karingal wrote: »
    She didn't charge you for the bag did she?

    yes, 2p.....
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited December 2008
    mile wrote: »
    yes, 2p.....
    Sign of the times...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited December 2008
    mile wrote: »
    yes, 2p.....

    Where do you buy your Porno's Aldi??
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  • milemile
    edited December 2008
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Where do you buy your Porno's Aldi??

    it was only a paper bag, and it was a few years ago.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited December 2008
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Where do you buy your Porno's Aldi??
    I'm surprised people still buy porn, it must be so much easier to use the internet...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited December 2008
    karingal wrote: »
    I'm surprised people still buy porn, it must be so much easier to use the internet...

    Well, I spose there's still are plenty of wankers who do not know how to use a computer. :lol:
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited December 2008
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Well, I spose there's still are plenty of wankers who do not know how to use a computer. :lol:
    I hope you don't mean mile...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited December 2008
    Nah, I think Mile knows how to use a computer enough to get at porn on it.
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited December 2008
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Nah, I think Mile knows how to use a computer enough to get at porn on it.
    Cue StickyKeys joke...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • milemile
    edited December 2008
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Nah, I think Mile knows how to use a computer enough to get at porn on it.

    yeah ha ha, like the internet even has porn on it.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited December 2008
    mile wrote: »
    yeah ha ha, like the internet even has porn on it.

    Depends what you class as porn I suppose.
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