{"id":103,"date":"2004-06-28T15:24:39","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T15:24:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-28T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T15:24:39","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer woe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another Internet Explorer security vulnerability &#8211; the only twist with this one is that there is no fix!  It&#8217;s laughably easy to be infected too &#8211; you view an infected web site &#8211; yes, that&#8217;s right, you just visit the site &#8211; and you&#8217;re infected.  The viral code exploits a security hole in Internet Explorer and there&#8217;s nothing you can do about it.  This type of activity is often referred to as a <a href=\"http:\/\/whatis.techtarget.com\/definition\/0,,sid9_gci887624,00.html\">drive-by download<\/a> (cf drive-by shooting).<\/p>\n<p>And, since there&#8217;s no existing fix for this problem, the only way to be sure of avoiding it is to stop using Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Now is a good time to install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">Mozilla Firefox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good anti-virus software should stop this particular attack, but there&#8217;s currently no direct fix for the vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another Internet Explorer security vulnerability &#8211; the only twist with this one is that there is no fix! It&#8217;s laughably easy to be infected too &#8211; you view an infected web site &#8211; yes, that&#8217;s right, you just visit the site &#8211; and you&#8217;re infected. The viral code exploits a security hole in Internet&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=103\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}