Re: Do I block access from svchost to DHCP?

From: Dale Richards (dale_at_spamtrap.dalerichards.co.uk)
Date: 06/15/05 

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:09:17 GMT

Adrian wrote:
> David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net) gurgled happily, sounding
> much like they were saying :
>
>
>>| If one does not use IE6 nor OE, are the differences relevant?
>
>
>>WinXP SP2 containe IE/OE SP2. There is no IE/OE SP2 for earlier MS
>>Operting Systems.
>>
>>Since the HTML capabilities of the OS are tied to IE then the fact
>>that you do not directly use IE or OE still means that that the HTML
>>vulnerabilities remain.
>
>
> Only if you use IE...

...or any other application that uses the IE HTML rendering engine. Such
programs are much more common than you seem to realise.

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