Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Feb 2006 18:40 UTC, submitted by Jason Scalia
Microsoft has released the 2nd beta of Internet Explorer 7 to the general public. You can read the release notes, or watch a tour of the new features. Microsoft warns you not to use this beta a production environment: "Evaluation of Internet Explorer 7 should start now, but the software should not be used on production systems in mission-critical environments. Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview will only run on Windows XP Service Pack 2 systems, but will ultimately be available for Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and Windows Server 2003." Update: You might have been expecting this, but there's already a DoS attack out there for this new beta.
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RE[3]: security through obscurity is no security at all
by tomcat on Fri 3rd Feb 2006 00:30
in reply to "RE[2]: security through obscurity is no security at all"
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"New security provisions built into IE7 render most attacks harmless. Here's why. When IE7 loads, it runs with reduced privileges (ACLs) by default. It doesn't matter whether the user is Administrator or a plain user. So, what does that mean? Even if IE7 crashes and triggers a buffer overflow, any attack is limited in scope to whatever a plain user can do. In other words, code *can't* install malware by modifying the registry, overwriting system DLLs, reading unauthorized data, etc. "
True, but that only applies to the Vista version, not the one for XP.