Unintentionally Blank

Microsoft is considering the early release of a fix for a bug in Internet Explorer that malicious hackers are actively exploiting online.

BBC

Considering? The vulnerability only means that a malicious website can hijack a Windows PC and install anything they want. Anti-Spyware firm Sunbelt-Software have discovered sites using this vunerability to download spyware, including keyloggers, and adware onto unsuspecting users computers. Aren’t IE users lucky that Microsoft are thinking about releasing a patch before their monthly update, next due on the 10th of October?

If you have IE and are worried, ZERT have released an unofficial patch for the time being. The other, better option, of course, being to get Firefox or Opera instead.

Update (27/09/06): Microsoft have released the patch now, though they still claim that the attacks they had seen exploiting the bug were very limited.

Thanks very much to Mostafa Mourad, a 27 year old web designer who recently discovered he was colour blind. People who are colour blind have different needs to most users of the internet, just as blind people do, but this thoughtful post seeks to enlighten the rest of us somewhat in the way that colour blind people see the world.

Yeah, I know for a link it’s taken me a while to post it, but it’s here to remind me as much as it is to show anyone else who hasn’t seen it too.