IE Vulnerabilities Page Removed

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 12, 2003 @10:23AM from the now-you're-on-your-own dept.

Henry V .009 writes "PivX Solutions has removed its (in)famous Unpatched IE Vulnerabilities page. Is Microsoft really getting better? From the site: 'Given Microsoft's recent positive actions together with the current rise in attacks against IE we have agreed to give Microsoft a good faith reprieve and have taken down our 'Unpatched' page. This was done in both a spirit of cooperation and for the good of the internet as a whole. As the ubiquitous browser that is utilized to access the internet, we all depend on IE too much to have crooks, social deviants, malcontents and crackers from messing with our lifestyles and our livelihoods. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!'"

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Google to the rescue... by wo1verin3 · 2003-10-12 10:24 · Score: 5, Informative

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Re:This can't be serious by Condor7 · 2003-10-12 10:40 · Score: 3, Informative

I expect that most of the sites that track this use the browsers identifier string to compile statistics.

I use Opera, and it comes preconfigured to misidentify itself as IE 6.0 - probably in response to the websites that check the string and won't let you in if you aren't using Netscape or IE.