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IE Holes Not Microsoft's Fault, Says Bill

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the born-into-a-state-of-sin dept.

thparker writes "As part of the Media Center release discussed previously, Bill Gates had an interview with USA Today. Best quote: 'Q: Speaking of security, Internet Explorer has had well-publicized holes... Gates: Understand those are cases where you are downloading third-party software.' Well now we know -- these problems have all been our own fault." Any counterexamples?

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  1. Re:Antivirus is not a thing you "build in" by darth_MALL · · Score: 1, Troll

    "other oses are secure enough to NOT NEED IT"
    ...for the meantime. Other OS's have the luxury of a very small market share, and thus are not the target of attack. If OSX were #1 I'm sure the attacks would be just a fast and furious. is the responsibility is on the company then?

  2. In Soviet Russia... by sokkalf · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...911 dials YOU!

  3. Re:No thanks by xarak · · Score: 0, Troll


    For personal use, I don't know of any cases where its a problem. You might not want to install the server packages (is that 'default')? Businesses, I understand.

    My W2K box was unuseable after 20 minutes on the net (time to download 602 LAN & an antivirus), and I had to clean it up in safe mode.

    Linux I boot in failsafe every 6 months or so to do crash recovery (yes, it happens), usually an fsck and we're off again.

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  4. Re:infomechanics by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because they didn't get it, Anonymous asshole Coward, as I pointed out in my reply. Your post is the insult to your intelligence.

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