Internet Explorer 9 BETA

[Charlotte]

The newest and yet the latest Internet Browser from Microsoft for Windows 7 is out now. It's currently still in BETA version meaning that more stuff is not yet added.

But for now, let's try the BETA and see what is new about the IE9.

Currently me are now installing it.

Download here http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/#/download/thank-you


There is two version that is for 32-bit and 64-bit.

[LemonRising]

lolll beauty of the web. o lawd.

hm. Looks similar to chrome.
idk, not really interested in getting it.

[Aniki]

I might get beated to death or something awful thing, but I don't like Internet Explorer. It's not even on my top browsers, not even in last:

1.Firefox
2.Google Chrome

And that's it. No Internet Explorer for me! ;-)

[LemonRising]

lol I believe a lot of people on the forum would agree with you.
IE has always been so useless. Much better options are out there

[Jaykub]

It shocks me people still use Internet Explorer. Here are a few reasons not to use Internet Explorer. Also credit goes to google for most of my findings...



1. Does Not Accept Extensions and Add Ons

No software can accommodate the complete wishes of its user base. It's impossible. Other browsers, like FireFox and Safari, acknowledge this by allowing third party programmers to build extensions and add ons that handle the missing features, making every one happy. Internet Explorer demonstrates great hubris by not allowing their user base to create or add features that address issues with their software and its lack of compatibility with so many things.


2. Linux Incompatibility

This makes no sense to the average web user, but Internet Explorer's continued incompatibility with Linux is an issue for a very tech savvy sector of the online market.


3. Java Issues

Did you know that Microsoft Java is not the same as the Java everyone else uses? I would be willing to bet you didn't. I'd also be willing to bet you've experienced the frustration of going to page with Java applets on the recommendation of friends or colleagues who have been using it flawlessly in other browsers, only to find it doesn't work right for you.

this is just another example of IE refusing to comply with the standards everyone else uses. They want you to have to use Microsoft products and Windows, and they think shutting you off from most of the web's functionality will convince you that is necessary. It just isn't so. You can use FireFox and still use your Microsoft programs. Changing browsers won't blow up your computer - it will just open new doors to you online.


4. An Article About Another IE Exploit

Attackers targeting Google and a host of other U.S. companies recently used software that exploits a new hole in Internet Explorer, Microsoft said Thursday.

"Internet Explorer was one of the vectors" used in the attacks that Google disclosed earlier this week, Microsoft said in a statement. "To date, Microsoft has not seen widespread customer impact, rather only targeted and limited attacks exploiting IE 6," the statement said.

The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 6, IE 7, and IE 8 on Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP, Server 2003, Server 2008 R2, as well as IE 6 Service Pack 1 on Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Microsoft said in an advisory on Thursday afternoon.

Google disclosed the attacks targeting it and other U.S. companies on Tuesday and said the attacks originated in China. Human rights activists who use Gmail also were targeted, Google said.

Source code was stolen from some of the more than 30 Silicon Valley companies targeted in the attack, sources said. Adobe has confirmed that it was targeted by an attack, and sources have said Yahoo, Symantec, Juniper Networks, Northrop Grumman, and Dow Chemical also were targets.

Microsoft said the vulnerability in IE exists as an invalid pointer reference and that it could allow an attacker to take control of a computer if the target were duped into clicking on a link in an e-mail or an instant message that led to a Web site hosting malware. "It could also be possible to display specially crafted Web content using banner advertisements or other methods to deliver Web content to affected systems," Microsoft said in the statement.

Microsoft is working on a fix but could not say whether it would address the issue as part of its next Patch Tuesday scheduled for February 9 or before.

Keeping the IE Internet zone security setting on "high" will protect users from the vulnerability by prompting before running ActiveX Controls and Active Scripting, Microsoft said. Customers should also enable Data Execution Prevention (DEP), which helps mitigate online attacks, the company said. DEP is enabled by default in IE 8 but must be manually turned on in earlier versions.

Microsoft acknowledged Google, Mandiant, Adobe Systems, and McAfee for working with the company and providing details on the attack.

Operation Aurora
Earlier on Thursday, McAfee CTO George Kurtz detailed the vulnerability in a blog post.

"As with most targeted attacks, the intruders gained access to an organization by sending a tailored attack to one or a few targeted individuals. We suspect these individuals were targeted because they likely had access to valuable intellectual property," Kurtz wrote. "These attacks will look like they come from a trusted source, leading the target to fall for the trap and clicking a link or file. That's when the exploitation takes place, using the vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer."

Many targeted attacks involve a "cocktail" of zero-day vulnerabilities combined with social engineering, he said. "So there very well may be other attack vectors that are not known to us at this time," he wrote.

Initially, security researchers investigating the attacks believed that a hole in Adobe Reader was a culprit, but Adobe has said that it has no evidence to suggest that a vulnerability in its technology was an attack vector.

McAfee believes the internal name attackers gave to the operation was "Aurora," which the code indicated was the directory name on the computer where the code was compiled into an executable file, said Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research at McAfee.

The attack was notable for its level of sophistication, using obfuscation techniques not typically seen in attacks on corporations, he said. It dropped about 10 different malicious files with different capabilities that were used at different stages of the infection and used crypto and other techniques to avoid detection, he added.

"The exploit itself was a piece of JavaScript code that encrypted itself and had multiple layers of encryption that got you to the executable binary code, which phoned home and then pulled an encrypted file from an external server," Alperovitch said. "That file used multiple keys for encryption and once it was decrypted it turned into an executable that dropped various modules onto the infected system."

One of the modules was a back door that phoned home to a different server and established an encrypted channel designed to avoid detection by masquerading as an Secure Sockets Layer protocol, he said. "That allowed the hackers to connect to the machine and basically take it over remotely. From then on they had a beachhead to explore the rest of the network for reconnaissance."

Asked what what type of data or areas of the network the code was programmed to look for or access, Alperovitch said "We saw the backdoor, but we did not see the capability in the malware to scan networks and locate things."

The attacks lasted about three weeks, from mid-December until January 4 and were most likely timed to coincide with the holiday season when offices would be closed or lightly staffed, he said.

In early January the command-and-control channels that the code used to receive instructions from the attackers were shut down, he said, adding, "So, we could not verify where the data was going or whether there were links to China."

He said he does not know why the command-and-control servers were shut down. They were located in Taiwan and in Texas and Illinois, he said.

"We believe this attack is a watershed moment," Alperovitch said. "We've never seen this level of sophistication on attacks targeting commercial companies that aren't affiliated with a government or the defense industrial base."




Unless you just love slow browsing and getting a virus use another browser ;-)

[HamadaLFC8]

I hate IE >.<

1. Chrome
2. Faiyahfox

[LiNuX]

A majority of the people still use IE as the main browser.

My Campus only recently moved over to Firefox but all computers have IE installed by default anyway.

At my office, only IE is available, you can't download any other browser even if you wanted to which sucks. I gotta talk to one of the IT guys...but they have deals with Microsoft and stuff so I'm pretty sure they'll stick with IE for now.

[Dess]

A majority of the people still use IE as the main browser.

My Campus only recently moved over to Firefox but all computers have IE installed by default anyway.

At my office, only IE is available, you can't download any other browser even if you wanted to which sucks. I gotta talk to one of the IT guys...but they have deals with Microsoft and stuff so I'm pretty sure they'll stick with IE for now.

It's the same way at my office and at my school... they only have IE enabled... I've been trying to get them to let us use Firefox or Chrome... but so far .. no dice.

[Charlotte]

2. Linux Incompatibility

This makes no sense to the average web user, but Internet Explorer's continued incompatibility with Linux is an issue for a very tech savvy sector of the online market.



You know that IE is generally only for Windows. Not for any other OS around there so...

[jango]

You know that IE is generally only for Windows. Not for any other OS around there so...

I think that's the point he's making .. that it isn't as cross-compatible like other browsers often are.

As for IE .. it's alright I guess, but I doubt I'll go back to it .. it's just too clinical for me, and i like my gadgets and gizmos too much.

[Shixx]

lol I tried it and not even 2 min goes by and it crashes.

[jango]

lol I tried it and not even 2 min goes by and it crashes.

I think this is what Microsoft calls 'Working as intended' .. :p

[Charlotte]

lol I tried it and not even 2 min goes by and it crashes.

Ya I have the same problem. IE always crashes and nor this IE9.
They should fixed it. :S

[ViciousGamer04]

Why get that when Firefox is so much better?

That and a LOT more secure..., IE is like. Verryyy not worth it.

[Charlotte]

Why get that when Firefox is so much better?

That and a LOT more secure..., IE is like. Verryyy not worth it.

Well Firefox will be my main browser tbh. Nothing better than it.

IE should need more improvement in the near future.

[LemonRising]

lol not even two minutes? haha yeah.. i wont even bother then.

[olly_thompson_63]

I love IE i find it easiest to use which is all i need it for! i dont know why people change just because firefox has a facebook dislike add-on.. IE all the way :)

[Aniki]

I stoped using IE when my brother started using Firefox, cuz he told me it was better. I just went along, and started using it! ^_^ Now, it's on my top browser! He prefers Google Chrome now but I will be the Fox lover... Yay!

[LemonRising]

I love IE i find it easiest to use which is all i need it for! i dont know why people change just because firefox has a facebook dislike add-on.. IE all the way :)

Have you tried the other ones? D:
Most people start off with IE, hear about firefox and try it, then just stay with firefox.

IE is a lot more unstable and .. well lets not start on the unsafe browsing aspect of it.

[LiNuX]

IE is a lot more unstable and .. well lets not start on the unsafe browsing aspect of it.

Yes to unstable for the most part.

And any browser is unsafe if you try hard enough.

[LemonRising]

indeed that's true. though IE just seems to be more of a target than any other.

[LiNuX]

That's because IE is still the most popular browser in the world. A majority of the visitors of this forum are still on IE so you have more people looking for exploits and bugs and hacks and other bad stuff for it than you do for firefox and opera and safari and...netscape? (yes people still use that)

[Eric]

Everything has its exploits. Nobody can code a 100% perfect non-hackable thing. Somebody smarter will always find something cuz they have plenty of time on their hands to do so. Look at YouTube getting hacked recently. You'd think being owned by Google it'd be exploit free but everything has its flaws somewhere, and its usually the tiny things that are overlooked in the first place

[jango]

Everything has its exploits. Nobody can code a 100% perfect non-hackable thing. Somebody smarter will always find something cuz they have plenty of time on their hands to do so. Look at YouTube getting hacked recently. You'd think being owned by Google it'd be exploit free but everything has its flaws somewhere, and its usually the tiny things that are overlooked in the first place

qft


..and its usually the tiny things that are overlooked in the first place

This is also the reason why I have a HUGE pile of washing to do today, rather than just a few days' worth :p

[Eric]

Lol I know how that is. I'm not sayin I support IE, I'm just sayin people give them a lot of crap for no reason. I understand how they feel. They work hard on somethin and the second its released they got people looking for exploits, just to make them look bad. Not everybodies perfect, but ever since they have started to get competition way back when, they've been failing to meet the standards of todays users. Back in the day when they had no real competition, they had nothing to worry about