More and Better Pop Ups Coming to Your Browser

Just when you thought you might get the upper hand in the war on adware, comes this encouraging message...

Pop-up toolbar spreads via IE flaws

But wait! It gets even better!

Microsoft learned of the issue when a security researcher posted an analysis of the problem to the Full Disclosure security mailing list Monday. The software giant has already contacted the FBI and is in the "early stages" of building the case, Toulouse said. The company is considering creating a patch quickly and releasing it as soon as possible, rather than waiting for its usual monthly update.

Yes, that's right, there is no patch for this flaw yet. Zero, zip, zilch, nada. But you notice they are "considering" releasing a patch quickly. (how nice of them to think about it) OR you can set your Internet security settings to "high" - then, of course, no site you visit will work until you add it to the "trusted zone"...

I forsee a large number of emails headed my way by friends who want me to fix their computers because they don't know how to get rid of all those annoying pop ups saying - I thought Spybot was supposed to take care of that!

UPDATE: Just found this on Slashdot - Microsoft's Magical 'Myth-Busting' Tour.

"Microsoft has launched its 'Get the Facts' road show -- the tech equivalent of a political battle bus -- to tour the country and convince the wavering that Redmond is as at least cheap and as secure as its open-source rival and to spread the word that Windows is better than Linux.

Is this the kind of thing where if they keep saying it long enough, it becomes true by default?

Comments

[lex]

Ahhh. The joys of a Mac, with Safari - security through obscurity (end gloat)

[Teresa]

Ah but Mac is now encountering it's own set of problems since it moved to a unix based OS. Actually I wish I could get Mac to work right with my business software - but even though I can get it to work - it's screwy *sigh* so I gave up rather than continually having hassles.

[pam]

What about Mozilla? Is it safer?

[Teresa]

Yeah, Mozilla and Opera are both exempt from this. Unfortunately, Opera never worked correctly on my computer and caused some problems, so I had to remove it. I have Mozilla, but since I am running off of a server (necessary for work) some of the functionality isn't available to me. So, at the moment I'm stuck. Ho-hum, story of me and computers... LOL.