Computer Emergency Readiness Team: No Internet Explorer
Filed in: Microsoft, Security — June 29th, 2004
A statement on the CERT site said: “There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites.” CERT otherwise recommends users to set security settings to high and disable JavaScript
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Here is Microsoft advice:
It(Microsoft) said users should use a firewall, ensure they have the latest software updates and use anti-virus software.
