IE8 - Manual install from Micro$oft Website

[system]

@Tech post:18

I have nothing to disable at startup… two or three programs that I run for years in my XP and nothing related to Internet or browsing or IE at all. I’m deffragmenting the partitions… Man, a lot of programs are taking all the CPU to run, not only IE8…

I like System Explorer as it is an enhancement to Task Manager but I do not let it replace Task Manager

Major Features:
• Detailed informations about Tasks, Processes, Modules, Startups, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files.
• Easy check of suspicious files via VirusTotal or Jotti service.
• Easy search details about file/process via online databases.
• Security Extension for automatic check of processes,modules and selected files.
• “New Task…” dialog with integrated AutoSearch and AutoCompletion.
• Action History for monitoring processes activities.
• Performance graphs for monitoring usage of system resources in time.
• System Snapshots for easy finding of system changes.
• System Report builds rich text report containing major informations about your System.
• Multilanguage and Plugins Support.
• Can be used as Task Manager replacement.

http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org

[DavidR]

@sunrisecc post:10

@DavidR post:8

Watch out for the first security update on IE8, there is an vulnerability/exploit already. Just another reason I always hang back.

Can you provide a link so I can inform myself of the vulnerability?

Knock yourself out, a present from my friend google, http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+ie8+vulnerability and http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/03/19/researcher-hacks-just-launched-ie8.

[system]

@DavidR post:22

@sunrisecc post:10

@DavidR post:8

Watch out for the first security update on IE8, there is an vulnerability/exploit already. Just another reason I always hang back.

Can you provide a link so I can inform myself of the vulnerability?

Knock yourself out, a present from my friend google, http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+ie8+vulnerability and http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/03/19/researcher-hacks-just-launched-ie8.

As IE is the most popular browser the script kiddies love to play and boast to their other script kiddie buddies how they break things maybe with a hope of getting a meaningful paying job. :

[DavidR]

Yes it probably has more to do with one-upmanship on the first day launch of IE8 than anything else and winning $5000 and a system to boot.

So does it matter how popular IE8 is since it has only been released (technically we don’t know how popular it is) or are we going to find out that this vulnerability exists in IE6/7 also, then it is a bigger user base.

[system]

Thanks for the links to the vulnerability. Even if it is true, that vulnerablity would not be enough cause me to return to IE7. I am not as paranoid as others and practice safe hex.

[DavidR]

It would cause me not to install it until the patch was released, but since I don’t use IE as my default browser I’m in no rush to install IE8 anyway. I haven’t installed IE7 and by the looks of it I won’t be, but end up installing IE8 when any kinks are ironed out that might be found early after release.

[Larc]

-= I run IE8 in a very old pc with 256 MB RAM… It wasn’t really slow… ;D For me I think its a little faster [and lighter in resources] than IE7…

[alanrf]

Same experience - I installed IE8 today on my vintage 2000 system (XP Pro SP3 - 1Ghz processor and 512Mb memory - the max for that machine) and it installed and runs just fine.