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Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click
spacehug writes "In a recent Microsoft Knowledge Base article, they provide 'Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks.' These steps include always using SSL/TLS, typing 'JScript commands' in the address bar, and typing in URLs instead of clicking links! I have a suggestion that's not in the Knowledge Base: don't use IE!"
i always knew that those hyperlinks were a bad security problem. Web designer should really avoid those propietary 'href'-tags for security reasons.
I have a suggestion that's not in the Knowledge Base: don't use IE!
Yeah, and I have a solution to prevent malicious programs like IE from running that's not in the Knowledge Base...
Install Linux.
I hear you can buy a copy of it for around $600 somewhere.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
I say go one step further for ultimate security and telnet to port 80.
Why risk using the Web at all? Just e-mail the webmaster and ask him to fax the webpages to you!
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In other news M$ advices all online banking users to walk in to their nearest bank office to secure their online banking...
Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click
So now MS is promoting a return to command line interfaces?
Is that the long way of saying "just use Mozilla" ?
"Protect yourself from email worms by walking to the post office!"
"Protect yourself from p2p worms by buying your music on 8-track tape!"
"Protect yourself from joe-jobs by not using your hotmail address!"
"Protect yourself from internet credit card theft by using dollar bills exclusively!"
"Protect yourself from e-banking snoopers by keeping your savings under the mattress!"
"Protect yourself from spam by disconnecting the internet!"
"For Christ's sake, protect yourself from illegal operations by turning off your computer NOW!
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To go back to an often used analogy, if Microsoft were a car company and their vehicles happened to exhibit a problem with the engines catching on fire (as happens, sometimes, with real car manufacturers) other makers would recall and fix the problem.
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Not microsoft!
They're innovative. They'd send a helpful sheet out to owners:
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Things you can do to protect yourself from an engine fire:
The most effective step you can take to protect yourself from an engine fire caused by the known defect, is pushing your car manually. By pushing your car manually, you can avoid creating the temperatures required to initiate combustion. This will keep your car safe. Also, you can save fuel and contribute to a cleaner environment.
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So what's next then? ....Write your emails in outlook, then print them and mail them in an envelope, all the benefits of outlook with the added security of Physical Delivery (tm)*(new improved feature, Microsoft patent pending).
Goatse trolls on Slashdot taught me not to click hyperlinks LONG before they became a security issue!
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
If you're roommate is that unwilling to change browsers when other people suggest, perhaps he's be willing to upgrade when "Microsoft" tells him to.
I've sent that page to a few people now, and the responses are pretty amusing. It redirects IE users to a spoofed MS Update page for Internet Explorer that offers Mozilla for download as the "update" for IE.
My hands cramped up about halfway through typing http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; %5Bln%5D;833786 . :)