Web browser flaw prompts warning

[umlaut]

http://www.mercuryserver.com/posting.php?mode=newtopic&f=1

Users are being told to avoid using Internet Explorer until Microsoft patches a serious security hole in it.

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I figure anyone who is using I.E needs to be warned and probably shouldn't be using that anyways with all the problems these days with I.E. Plus anyone who is using I.E deserved to have these sorta problems.

Alright that was enuff I.E bashing for today!

[thepariah]

so where is this warning from? I haven't heard a single thing about this and can't find any information about it.

[picklemonkey]

Re: Web browser flaw prompts warning

I figure anyone who is using I.E needs to be warned and probably shouldn't be using that anyways with all the problems these days with I.E. Plus anyone who is using I.E deserved to have these sorta problems.

It's not that IE has so many problems, it's the fact that 98% of the people in the world use IE so its exploits are searched for more rigorously. Netscape/etc have plenty of exploits too... it just that nobody cares enough to target 1% of the population when they can target 98% of it.

I guarantee that 9 out of 10 people in the world have never cruised over to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com to patch all the other *fixed* bugs in IE, so one more security flaw isn't a big deal. Most people out there probably have 40 critical security updates missing from IE alone. Whoever says not to use IE because of a bug is stupid... just don't browse for porn and illegal software and there wouldn't be a problem to begin with.

[thepariah]

finally saw the info on this one. can be found here:

http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1333&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20040625%2F1310284967.htm&sc=1333&related=off&photoid=20040622TXDP101&floc=NW_1-T

[tintin]

Fire Fox here baby

[Alpinevpr]

Fire fox is the only way to go. I get shafted into using IE at work. Firefox rules!

[hypoluxxa]

I use Safari.

[nbpgt]

Re: Web browser flaw prompts warning

http://www.mercuryserver.com/posting.php?mode=newtopic&f=1

should i start a new thread concerning the IE screw?

[beto]

Another IE exploit? really? nooooo... you must be kidding!


I'm quite happy with my Opera browser, tried FireFox a couple of times but it kept crashing on me.... I'll wait for a 1.x version.

[TheOutsider]

i had opera for a while but the last ver i had took up to much cpu usage.. firebird has served well so far

[FM]

IE a-ok for me....bugs schmugs...

[arielus]

FireFox seems to be the best browser for porn :P

[supaz]

I got tired of DL patches for windows security flaws, plus I was getting hit all the time with trojans, etc...

so I got a mac and things are cool...

there are alternatives out there

[dohturdima]

I got tired of DL patches for windows security flaws, plus I was getting hit all the time with trojans, etc...

so I got a mac and things are cool...

there are alternatives out there

I am switching to Opera, but it takes time to get use to the new quirks. Gettin' too old for this...

[beto]

^^ Right. It took me some effort to move from IE to Opera. But once you start using it, you can't leave it. It has some great features than you can't find on other browsers (although Firefox has plugins that copy some of them), specially IE. The browsing tabs, opening pages in background (really handy when you weant to open lots of links from one page, you don't loose the focus on that one ie opening several topics of a forum), "paste and go" urls, mouse gestures, it keeps a list of every window that you closed on the session so you can go back to it anytime, when (if) it crashes or power goes down or you simply close the browser window while browsing you just open Opera again and there they are, the same sites you were checking before (that's something I hate about IE... crashing with 20 windows and losing all that information, url's...), zoom option to zoom in on images and web sites, built in transfer management with resume capability, pop-up blocking, google search bar on every window, mail manager and irc client... well I think I got a little bit too enthusiastic about it