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Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE

Posted by timothy on from the and-while-you're-at-it-mull-over-your-OS dept.

Hoyceman writes "About 80,000 students and staff are being told to use an alternate browser. The Penn State ITS department sent the alert 'because the threats are real and alternatives exist to mitigate Web browser vulnerabilities.' InformationWeek is carrying the story."

2 of 486 comments (clear)

  1. Re:WinAmp and the MBR by Safety+Cap · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    >When you install winamp an option to install a component into the machine's MBR ~.

    Either you don't know anything about low-level disk functions, or you are a Mac user. Or both.

    I'll drop a troll-pellet, though:

    Please explain to us what "component" WinAmp writes to the MBR, specifically, what sectors/tracks are written, and with what data. Also, please explain how WinAmp bypasses the HAL.

    Thank you.

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  2. Now to HTML free of IE centric code on internet by sjs132 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mozilla is nice, I use it now... (love the tabbed browsing, etc..)

    BUT...

    I still run into problems with pages that just don't work... So Then I have to go copy/paste URL, Fire up IE, and eventually kill it when I'm done playing...

    The INTERNET still needs to realize that IE is NOT the only browser to program for...

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