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IE7, IE8 and IE9 zero-day exploit

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Does anyone know of a better landing page for convincing people to leave Internet Explorer? (specifically, aging relatives)

Browse Happy is the only one I know of.

http://browsehappy.com/

Your best bet might just be to install a different browser and see if they notice.

There is probably an opportunity here to create a firefox or chrome extension that makes the basic UI Mimic Internet Explorer exactly so people don't notice.

That's actually slightly rude if you ask me.

> There is probably an opportunity here to create a firefox or chrome extension that makes the basic UI Mimic Internet Explorer exactly so people don't notice.

Or easier yet, just install Chrome Frame.

That's only going to work for sites that explicitly require it (i.e don't work in IE). So they're still going to be using IE 99% of the time.

That's easy to fix: http://www.labnol.org/software/force-google-chrome-in-intern...

http://browsehappy.com/?locale=en, for those who don't speak 日本語. Interesting to see a Japanese site like this, considering that the Japanese aren't very enthusiastic about using alternate browsers.

http://browsehappy.com/ is in English for me.

This is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/DRm13.jpg

I get it in my native language, Swedish, which means that they are doing some kind of detection based on the requests your browser is sending, or based on your IP.

If you don't live anywhere near Japan, nor have configured your OS/Browser for this language, I would guess their system for detecting certain region-specific IP's is outdated or broken.

Setting language based on IP address is... terrifyingly inappropriate.

It was in German for me!

I think they're poorly checking Accept:

Unfortunately, quite a lot of the online testing and school support sites won't work with anything else.

This was on the frontpage yesterday... ? Microsoft has already issued a patch..

Do you have a link to the patch? The latest I know of is the security advisory saying they're looking into it and a workaround that's not really a patch.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/275776...

They just posted this: http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2012/09/18/additiona...

I believe Microsoft are saying if you install EMET and enable it for IE, you'll be safe.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2458544

That's the workaround that's not really a patch that I was talking about. EMET is a very cumbersome system to work with in my experience, and not something a consumer would put up with.

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