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Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE
LWATCDR writes "I have been saying this for a long time but now it is offical. From Yahoo News:
'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's Internet Explorer.'" In related news, rocketjam writes "According to Wired, the widespread Internet Explorer security exploit last week and CERT's subsequent recommendation that IE users should consider switching to another browser has resulted in a large spike in downloads of the Mozilla Organization's Mozilla and Firefox web browsers."
A more important question is, do Firefox and Mozilla format the webpages correctly?
God, man. Interesting story. Your sister must be some nigger.
People in this thread keeps saying that M$ is under pressure and this is the best news since sliced bread. Well, I see this a wee bit different. Now, Mozilla is under pressure!
Once Mozilla gains sufficiently market shares, we will see exploits for that browser more and more often. And yes - there will be exploits. IE is not compromised so often just because it's poorly written, but because it's so popular that hordes of script kiddies are trying out every possible hack.
CERT gave the warning on July 10. BBC reported this on June 14. I tried to submit 5 different revisions of this story on June 16. I thought it was important to get the word out because I would like to have known about this if I was running windows (I did on my old laptop).
Old News for Nerds. Stuff that mattered.
If the open source people are on top of things, why does it seem that there is always a new OSS expliot every week? Virus and spyware writers don't write for OSS because most people don't use OSS. OSS is hardly dragging down MS on the desktop. If you think OSS will ever be a replacement for MS on the desktop, well wake me up when it happens. The only thing OSS is viable for right now is on the server where these problems rarely become issues anyway.
sorry but... the GNAA had seen this comming. www.gnaa.us baby
Hey, you open source Microsoft haters and nutcases, in spite of your best efforts for the best part of like 8 years, Microsoft Intenet Explorer browser still totally DOMINATES the browser market, with an OVERWHELMING,UNBEATABLE,AWE INSPIRING 94% market share.
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Extract from Onesta.com
"Amsterdam - May 28 2004 - OneStat.com ( www.onestat.com ), the number one provider of real-time web analytics, today reported
that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a total global usage share of 93.9 percent. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market.
Microsoft's IE 6 is currently the leading browser on the web. Microsoft's IE 6 global usage has increased with 1.2 percent from 68.1 percent to 69.3 percent since July 2003. Mozilla's global usage share is 2.1 percent and Opera 7 has a global usage of 1.02 percent
http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox30.
Read and weep,suckers!!
Its always a such great pleasure to seeMicrosoft smoke the open source IP stealers everytime!
Sometimes juries allow negligence laws to be abused, eg. the McDonald's coffee fiasco*, but that a slippery slope does not make.
* Yes, I have read about the whole case. No, just because the coffee was extremely hot does not make McDonald's liable. Good coffee _should_ be extremely fucking hot. The only negligence going on there was an old woman squeezing a styrofoam cup between her legs, a woman too old to jump up immediately to mitigate the damage. The case was won because the jury sympathized with the old woman and because McDonald's handled the case very callously. IMO, McDonald's deserved it, but it still constitutes an abuse of the law.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden