![]() ![]() They made the best browser at the time and others couldn’t follow for a while. It is perfectly okay to say that Microsoft benefitted from the IE6 dominance, but this wasn’t something that they could have planned or predicted. So “the next version of IE” was being worked on, but for Vista….which just got delayed and delayed and delayed. Microsoft stopped making Internet Explorer a separate program and bound it to the OS instead. Simple fact is Microsoft stopped developing it because they relied on its incompatibilities, and subsequent “optimised for IE” lock-in to cement their web browser monopoly. ![]() Opera was a paid/commercial product that “nobody” used at that time and (digs in memory and Wikipedia) didn’t even support Unicode at that time. Netscape couldn’t make a proper browser after 4.7 and FireFox didn’t exist until 2005. In 2001 it really was far better than other webbrowsers. No, that is not what I meant at all because at the time it came out (2001) nobody had it installed and no websites had been targeted for it. If by best, you mean most ubiquitous, installed by default, most targeted by website owners (CSS warts and all) and hackers alike, then yes, I guess IE6 was far better than the competition. To set macro security on LibreOffice, go to Tools → Options → LibreOffice → Security, and click on ‘Macro Security’.IE6 was by far better than other browsers (Netscape) at the time it came out. ![]() If updating to the latest version is not possible for any reason, you can always opt to completely disable the macro features on your office suite, or avoid trusting any documents containing macros. If you’re using Linux and the aforementioned versions aren’t available on your distribution's package manager yet, you are advised to download the “deb”, or “rpm” package from the Download center or build LibreOffice from source. Since neither of these two applications offer auto-updating, you should do it manually by downloading the latest version from the respective download centers - LibreOffice, OpenOffice. For OpenOffice, that would be 4.1.10 and later, and for LibreOffice, 7.0.5 or 7.1.1 and later. If you’re using either of the open-source office suites, you’re advised to upgrade to the latest available version immediately. The same flaw impacts LibreOffice, which is a fork of OpenOffice spawned from the main project over a decade ago, and for their project is tracked as CVE-2021-25635. The discovery of the flaw, which is tracked as CVE-2021-41832 for OpenOffice, was the work of four researchers at the Ruhr University Bochum. "Allowing anyone to sign macro-ridden documents themselves, and make them appear as trustworthy, is an excellent way to trick users into running malicious code. The digital signatures used in document macros are meant to help the user verify that the document hasn’t been altered and can be trusted. LibreOffice and OpenOffice have pushed updates to address a vulnerability that makes it possible for an attacker to manipulate documents to appear as signed by a trusted source.Īlthough the severity of the flaw is classified as moderate, the implications could be dire. ![]()
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