Webwasher fills gap in Internet Explorer hole.Security advisors are warning of a hole uncovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. . The newly reported weakness allows threats to enter computers through infected Web pages or through HTML e-mail An e-mail message formatted as a Web page (HTML document). Like a Web page, it can include different fonts and graphics, which regular text e-mail does not support. It enables the publishing of fancy newsletters and reports as well as elaborate advertising, all of which is sent as an viewed in applications that use Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. for displaying Web pages such as Outlook, Outlook Express or Lotus Notes. CyberGuard Corp. prevents attacks that could use this vulnerability with its Webwasher Content Security Management (CSM CSM - ["CSM - A Distributed Programming Language", S. Zhongxiu et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-13(4):497-500 (Apr 1987)]. ) solution. This proactively secures networks against common threats regardless of point of origin. Positive traffic is scanned and reconfigured before entering the network; harmful files are filtered before any negative impact can occur. In relation to the fresh IE hole, the proactive scanner detects and filters harmless HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. pages on HTFP or HTFPS servers and HTML formatted e-mails. While Microsoft has not yet issued a new patch to protect users from this hole, tests have shown that CyberGuard customers deploying the latest Webwasher technology are secure. Proactive filtering technology in Webwasher version 5.1 protects against malicious files and is part of Webwasher Antivirus and Webwasher Content Protection products. www.cvberguard.com. |
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