[News] Still more reasons to avoid Internet Explorer - Linux
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A few recent stories highlighted a bedrock of Defensive Computing -
if you surf the web on a Windows computer, you are safer using
Firefox as opposed to Internet Explorer.
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Firefox does an excellent job of updating itself, ...
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[News] Still more reasons to avoid Internet Explorer
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-9984277-33.html
A few recent stories highlighted a bedrock of Defensive Computing -
if you surf the web on a Windows computer, you are safer using
Firefox as opposed to Internet Explorer.
......
Firefox does an excellent job of updating itself, Internet Explorer
does not. The survey found many IE users running old versions of the
browser, moreso than other browsers. For example, Firefox defaults
to opening up a window telling the user that there is a new version,
what the new version is, and asking for permission to install it.
Internet Explorer doesn't come close to being that user-friendly.
On June 26th at ZDNet Ryan Naraine wrote about a new bug in Internet
Explorer (Zero-day flaw haunts Internet Explorer) for which
Microsoft has no fix/patch. A few days later, he documented how the
bad guys were exploiting this bug (Exploit code released for
unpatched IE 7 vulnerability). That story starts with "Another day,
another gaping hole affecting fully patched versions of Microsoft's
Internet Explorer browser." We've been down this road before.
The original source for stories about this particular bug is US-CERT
Vulnerability Note VU#516627 which says the bug affects IE6, IE7 and
even the beta edition of the upcoming IE8. A trifecta.
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Update. July 6, 2008: Tuesday July 8th is Patch Tuesday and
according to Ryan Naraine at ZDNet there will be no fixes to
Internet Explorer, which currently suffers from several known bugs.
Quoting:
"These include the Safari-to-IE bug reported by Aviv Raff, the
cross-domain zero-day affecting IE 6, the cross-site scripting
bug reported by Roel Schouwenberg, the print table of links
issue, and the serious iFrame hijacking flaw discussed by
Sirdarckat. There really is no excuse for the delay in patching
the Safari-to-IE code execution flaw. It was reported to
Microsoft since 2006!"
Sure there's an excuse: how many boxes will that fix sell?
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Re: [News] Still more reasons to avoid Internet Explorer
Sinister Midget wrote:
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-9984277-33.html
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> A few recent stories highlighted a bedrock of Defensive Computing -
> if you surf the web on a Windows computer, you are safer using
> Firefox as opposed to Internet Explorer.
Tell this to the Vienna officials: they're forcing Internet Explorer down
the throats of even the youngest in the course of teaching them computer
skills, killing their Linux migration in the process of sustaining their
Windows addiction.
And perhaps worst of all: the name of the IE-only program -- Schlaumaüse,
i.e. Smart Mice -- suggests that this is a smart way to use a cmoputer ...
Richard Rasker
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Re: [News] Still more reasons to avoid Internet Explorer
On 2008-07-07, Richard Rasker claimed:
> Sinister Midget wrote:
>
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-9984277-33.html
>>
>> A few recent stories highlighted a bedrock of Defensive Computing -
>> if you surf the web on a Windows computer, you are safer using
>> Firefox as opposed to Internet Explorer.
>
> Tell this to the Vienna officials: they're forcing Internet Explorer down
> the throats of even the youngest in the course of teaching them computer
> skills, killing their Linux migration in the process of sustaining their
> Windows addiction.
> And perhaps worst of all: the name of the IE-only program -- Schlaumaüse,
> i.e. Smart Mice -- suggests that this is a smart way to use a cmoputer ...
Anybody who designs anything that /requires/ Windwoes or IE should be
put in a maximum security prison. Give 'em a few turns in the sack with
Bubba, say 25 to life.
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