abc@home

First we have to thank 80sec, a security research team in China. They found a vulnerability in Maxthon and promptly informed us. We truely appreciate their work and their professionalism. After detailed analysis, we have confirmed with 80sec that the vulnerability is actually a vulnerability of the IE WebBrowser Control, which affects all browsers and applications based on IE (with the exception of the IE7 browser).

This vulnerability can cause very severe consequences. Malicious websites could exploit this vulnerability to steal users sensitive personal information, and could also initiate other malicious actions.

Maxthon have been working on this vulnerability at the highest priority and is here to release a new version with the vulnerability fixed. We strongly recommend update to this latest version for Internet safety.

We have also informed Microsoft and urged an official solution for all other applications based on the IE WebBrowser Control.


Download
http://maxthon.cachefly.net/mx_2.1.2.589.exe


Complete changes in this version:

[browsing]
- fixed security issues arising from an IE WebBrowser Control vulnerability

[accessories]
- fixed problem that favorites are not imported when online favorites service is disabled
- fixed problems relating to system directories, like send to desktop
- fixed slow Maxthon exit problem under some circumstances

[find in page]
- can use up/down arrow or mousewheel to scroll through matches
- the input field will be highlight if no match is found
- fixed problem that match result dialog sometimes empty
- fixed problem that skin settings are not used

[Others]
- fixed a crash problem of AutoUpdate when DEP is enabled
- added a print page setup menu command (have to reset menu bar)

pekkle

update for safety... great release

abc@home

Maxthon is so fast again in fixing vulnerabilities  

But naturally the full details of the vulnerabiliy cannot be disclosed at the moment, as there are still dozens of other IE based browsers and applications vulnerable. Hopefully MS can come up a solution soon.

Olean

awesome

firs73

gorgeous  (-_-)

Knecht Ruprecht

great! I'm really impressed!!!

iron2000

How about pushing this to "Check for updates"?

johnnylegend

The update checker really needs to wake up.   Are beta updates even included? If not an option to receive betas would be nice.

abc@home

This is now beta. If no major problem is found, official version will be released soon and will be added to auto update.

Whiteshark

[find in page]
- can use up/down arrow or mousewheel to scroll through matches
- the input field will turn red if no match is found

Is worth to report that the above features are not working using
the Interface Styles.

glennie

Quote:

- the input field will turn red if no match is found

Not true as far as I can see.  

For example, if I type the word 'rats' into the input field when I'm on this page, nothing happens.

Can someone either confirm or tell me how to get it to function (=turn red) ?


Thanks for dealing so quickly with the security issue.

[ Last edited by glennie at 2008-6-27 11:49 ]

Whiteshark

This is the orange background color i see, glennie



And it does appears as you type...

iron2000

I was thinking that it seem to be some critical update.
I'll wait for the final then.

glennie

Did you re-set anything? Nothing appears for me.



Maybe I'm doiing something wrong.

[ Last edited by glennie at 2008-6-27 11:59 ]

YuraH

Quote:

Original posted by Whiteshark at 2008-6-27 11:39
[find in page]
- can use up/down arrow or mousewheel to scroll through matches
- the input field will turn red if no match is found

Is worth to report that the above features are not working using
the Interface Styles.

Confirming.

abc@home

Yes, it looks like the color has been changed

glennie

Working now, but I had to go to default skin and then back into my 'normal' skin.

Whiteshark

Quote:

Original posted by abc@home at 27/6/2008 12:00 PM
Yes, it looks like the color has been changed

Not that bad in my opinion, the black fonts are more readable with this background color than on a red one.

Whiteshark

Quote:

Original posted by glennie at 27/6/2008 12:02 PM
Working now, but I had to go to default skin and then back into my 'normal' skin.

Sorry, i didn't realize this were needed, since switching from
a Interface Style to the Default Skin i got the same "resetting effect"

johnnylegend

The issue I described here is still existent. Maybe it could be fixed in the final release.