On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:30:35 +0000, B Gruff wrote:
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> What does "zero day" mean?
Discovered/exploited the same day the application or update was released.
> What does "extremely critical" mean?
Generally, that it can result in your system being totally hosed, or
simply 0wned, by someone else.
> What is ActiveX?
A way to allow unknown, untrusted third parties to run code on your
computer, with all the privileges you have - which, for most, means full
access to all aspects of the system.
> What is IE6/IE7?
The Microsoft exploit delivery system.
> What does "already being actively exploited" mean?
That the vulnerability actually has active code out there which relies on
it to compromise the machine.
> Should I care any more?
Depends. Are you crazy enough to use a browser which has arguably the
worst security record in the industry, on an OS which, likewise, has
arguably the worst security record in the industry, using the typical
user settings which give you - and exploits - full access to the entire
system, while leaving enabled such wildly dangerous things as support for
running, locally, code delivered from a remote site?
If not, then no, you probably shouldn't care.
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