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Date Posted	November 17, 2008
News Title	IE Stuffing/ANOTHER DANGER FOR IE USERS
Posted By	Michael Ludwick
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There is an exploit for IE that allows people to put information in your prefix box. Commonly it makes it so you can't speak in a room or it will say something nutty when you try to talk. All other browsers are immune to this. I have not been able to pin down the code but the removal instructions are in the bottom frame of every chat room. You simply hit config while chatting and clear the prefix box. If this happens please send me the contents of the prefix box and I will give you A FREE 1 YEAR MEMBERSHIP! This will allow us to fix yet another Internet Exlorer exploit. This is an issue of great concerne because people think Chatro is malfunctioning when it is IE the is the culprit. My advice is to download Firefox. browse the zillion useful add-ons including Sparky. Then right click the IE icon and get to advanced/network proxies or connections. Put 127.0.0 for the proxy and you effectively disable microsoft from gathering information on your system or pulling the plug on your OS if your vendor put an illegal copy of the operating system on your box. If at any time you absolutely have to update any Microsoft product that requires you use IE you can remove the proxy setting and the browser will work. I can't say it as much as google has 349,000 results on IE exploits. Don't use IE! It's insecure,broken,slow,ugly,fatware and just a piece of junk!99.999% of all support calls involve IE and it's degree of brokenness. Simply google download firefox 3 and you can do it in 3 minutes. Then you can browse themes (I prefer the Harley theme) and add-ons like screen capture,passwd helpers like Skipper. Skipper lets you train forms and I would die without it. There are also privacy,encryption,time,geolocation,SEO and more tools than you could ever use. The tools are super small downloads that install themselves. Thunderbird mail Firefox's mail companion is also a great mailer with the same range of add-ons. I use Validation and spam reporting tools and also a neat clock weather combo that are always on my desktop.