FYI to protect your genealogy computers. National Cyber Awareness System: Internet Explorer 10 Use-After-Free Vulnerability Being Actively Exploited In The Wild 02/14/2014 12:44 PM EST Original release date: February 14, 2014 An unpatched Internet Explorer 10 use-after-free vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#732479 has been published with further details about the vulnerability. US-CERT recommends users protect themselves against this exploit by using Microsoft's EMET utility, upgrading to Internet Explorer 11, or using an unaffected alternative web browser until a patch is released. Sincerely, jasche

My 2 Cent suggestion, from years working in IT, is to use an alternate browser. Firefox and Chrome are what I use, with great success. IE is so far off my radar and has been for many, many years. For Web Designers, IE is a big issue as Microsoft has never kept to Web Standards‎. With Firefox and Chrome modern browsers, you will always be assured that you are seeing web pages at their best ‎...  Sent from my BlackBerry Z10   Original Message   From: JLA Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 6:33 PM To: computers@rootsweb.com Reply To: computers@rootsweb.com Subject: [COMPUTERS] IE 10 Exploitation FYI to protect your genealogy computers. National Cyber Awareness System: Internet Explorer 10 Use-After-Free Vulnerability Being Actively Exploited In The Wild 02/14/2014 12:44 PM EST Original release date: February 14, 2014 An unpatched Internet Explorer 10 use-after-free vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#732479 has been published with further details about the vulnerability. US-CERT recommends users protect themselves against this exploit by using Microsoft's EMET utility, upgrading to Internet Explorer 11, or using an unaffected alternative web browser until a patch is released. Sincerely, jasche :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on the list. You can buy/sell for free on the Genealogical Materials lists. This list is for peer-to-peer support and discussion of computer problems incurred in genealogy research. Use caution when following any advice. :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COMPUTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message