On Sunday 05 December 2004 06:08, you wrote: The problem below has to do with security holes in Internet Explorer. The US computer emergency reponse team warns already a long time against using Microsoft IE. A description of your problem can be found on their website:
http://www.us-cert.gov and type IE in the search button. You'll find another 10 nice vulnerability notes about IE. The one described below by you is described by US-cert as VU#490708: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/490708 (read especially the 'use a different web browser' remark!) Taco > Dear lute netters, > > Please beware of the 3rd site listed here: > > http://www.ifrance.com/luth-librairie/ > > I went to the site, and was unable to navigate, as a screen came up that I > was unable to delete, and I had to turn my power source off - it was the > only way to exit. Even trying to Control-alt- delete did not work. I then > quickly did an ad-ware scan, & found I was infected with 7 ad-ware > cookies. I had been free of any ad-ware cookies prior to going to that > site ( I had done a scan prior to the visit of that site). To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
