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"The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer."
"The Microsoft browser, the government warned, cannot protect against vulnerabilities in its Internet Information Services (IIS) 5 server programs, which a team of hackers allegedly based in Russia has exploited with a Java script that is appended to Web sites."
now i guess MS will start having stricter testing measures for their software. hopefully this will make sure Longhorn doesn't have any stupid bugs or big "come on over here and hack me!" signs.
Alternative browsers such as Mozilla or Netscape may not protect users, the agency warned, if those browsers invoke ActiveX control or HTML rendering engines.
What the???
First, Netscape is Mozilla, but with AOL adware pre-installed. And there are other browsers apart from IE and Mozilla.
Second, Mozilla doesn't have any ActiveX stuff at all, and uses it's own HTML rendering engine, so it is completely immune to bugs in ActiveX and MSHTML. I think it's only ever had one bug in common with IE, and that was fixed within days (compared to months for IE, and they didn't actually fix it properly), and wasn't as severe as it was in IE anyway...
Yeah, I remember I had to Reg kill IE cause it was making my PC run like crap cause of spyware. I would run Add Aware and kill a couple 100, then look at my email, and here, and whammo like 100 more. Mc Afee couldn't find anything, even after updating it. Now I only get a couple a month.
Actually, I have a Win2k machine here where Internet Explorer just doesn't work. Were it not for the fact that it uses Firefox as it's web browser, I would probably have had to format it by now. Of course, no IE means no Windows Update, and no Add+Remove Programs thingy, among other things, so I am going to have to wipe it out and start over just because IE no longer works. Grr...
Hmm that is odd because I still get upgrades plus my add remove program still work, and I use XP. I thought XP was just 2K with a pretty face lift, and a lot of stupid stuff added on to it.
On this machine, IE is literally dead. You open it, and it crashes as soon as you try to load a web page. Even the MSHTML control (the HTML rendering engine) doesn't work, and some genius decided to use the web browser to handle that part. As a result, I can't remove IE (it was an update that killed it, and I can't remove the update), so I can't fix it.
It's certainly getting there, although I do like the UI of Firefox a lot more than Konqueror's web browsing profile. Perhaps a just-a-browser for KDE (using KHTML) would be a good idea.
BlackAura I have a machine exactly the same with IE. Though it's the machine my dad's using atm, and he is insistant on using MSN Explorer so I'm just leaving it until a big problem arise's he can't fix, or I need to use it for something.
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