IE 6 spies on you.

[link|http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8955/|Internet Explorer Exposes Sensitive Information].

A vulnerability has been identified in Internet Explorer, which exposes sensitive information to "msn.com" and "alexa.com".

While this is a known "feature" when the "Show Related Links" option is activated in Internet Explorer, there is a bug, so that Internet Explorer will keep transmitting the information to "msn.com" and "alexa.com" after "Show Related Links" has been de-activated. This occurs whenever "Ctrl+R" is used to reload a page.

To make matters worse, it has been confirmed that this behaviour also affects SSL enabled pages. One thing is that Microsoft has chosen to make a "feature", which reveals this information to "msn.com" and "alexa.com", but the fact that information, which was supposed to be protected by SSL and sent only to one site, is sent in plain text to a third party ("msn.com" and "alexa.com") is of great concern.

The data transmitted to "msn.com" and "alexa.com" is the complete URL. In some cases this could contain sensitive information such as username, password, session id, search string, "secret paths", and more.

While it's called a bug, I have difficulty categorizing it that way.

Ad-aware takes care of it. That and other solutions can be seen by using the Other References link at the bottom of the page.

Post #107,070 by a6l6e6x 6/23/03 9:07:15 PM Reply	IE 6 spies on you. [link\|http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8955/\|Internet Explorer Exposes Sensitive Information]. A vulnerability has been identified in Internet Explorer, which exposes sensitive information to "msn.com" and "alexa.com". While this is a known "feature" when the "Show Related Links" option is activated in Internet Explorer, there is a bug, so that Internet Explorer will keep transmitting the information to "msn.com" and "alexa.com" after "Show Related Links" has been de-activated. This occurs whenever "Ctrl+R" is used to reload a page. To make matters worse, it has been confirmed that this behaviour also affects SSL enabled pages. One thing is that Microsoft has chosen to make a "feature", which reveals this information to "msn.com" and "alexa.com", but the fact that information, which was supposed to be protected by SSL and sent only to one site, is sent in plain text to a third party ("msn.com" and "alexa.com") is of great concern. The data transmitted to "msn.com" and "alexa.com" is the complete URL. In some cases this could contain sensitive information such as username, password, session id, search string, "secret paths", and more. While it's called a bug, I have difficulty categorizing it that way. Ad-aware takes care of it. That and other solutions can be seen by using the Other References link at the bottom of the page. Alex "Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life." -- Eric Hoffer
Post #107,073 by deSitter 6/23/03 9:21:28 PM Reply	Of course it does So I play the Microsoft game, and let them do whatever the fuck they want, and move our business to Linux. Bye. -drl
Post #107,091 by pwhysall 6/24/03 1:33:06 AM Reply	I don't care about that. I just wish the damn thing would stop crashing.[0] Blew away an hours work yesterday - and when the hour's work in question is a chap's timesheet, it's even MORE annoying. "Would you like to send an error report to Microsoft?" Not an error report, no. [0]Work computer, no choice of browser, intranet app that requires IE6 (ActiveX doins) Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #107,105 by drewk 6/24/03 9:09:09 AM Reply	And elephants are fat, film at 11 === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #107,109 by bepatient 6/24/03 9:51:37 AM Reply	No they aren't...they're just big boned. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #107,107 by ben_tilly 6/24/03 9:41:03 AM Reply	Why would you expect them not to? Grab a random user, and try to get them to care. If said user doesn't care, why should Microsoft? Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]

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