[LINK] Flaw found that affects every Windows machine

[Jan Whitaker]

At 12:47 PM 31/01/2011, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> >More information can be found here.
>
>http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/
>
>Only mentions IE, not any other browser. I realise MS pushed IE, but
>gee, there's a wider world out there in terms of software and they
>admit it's a Windows XP onwards problem. Does it affect other
>browsers or not? By this 'fix it' article, you don't know. Can any
>linkers shed light?

More on this today in the Age:
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/900m-internet-explorer-users-vulnerable-to-datastealing-hack-20110201-1abmd.html
Users of other browsers such as Google Chrome and Firefox are not affected.



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