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AMUST eCondom for Internet Explorer
An anonymous reader writes "Irish Dev is reporting that AMUST Software recently announced the release of their 'eCondom for Microsoft Internet Explorer.' From the article: 'eCondom reduces and eliminates the risks by allowing users to run Internet Explorer in SafeBrowse mode. It works similar to Run As command in Windows XP, and forces a user to use Internet Explorer under User account, even if he/she is logged in under Administrator account. Unlike Run As command eCondom normally does not reduce Windows XP usability and
flexibility, and does not downgrade users Internet experience while making Internet browsing much more secure and safe.'"
Now... If they could only change the "run" to "wear", and "stop/exit/quit" to "throw away" my day is made! :D
Also, make the package so that everyone feel totally embarrassed when buying it. Yeah, I know it's free, but they could at least make you hear a moaning sound when you click the download or something...
All puns aside though. Does this really help. You can do a lot nasty stuff with a regular account as well, right? I think it is great though, that people try to make IE more secure, not only do the "use Firefox" solution (for the record I'm a Firefox user!). It's in everyones interest that as many browsers as possible is as secure as possible.
Scully: Should we arrest David Copperfield?
Mulder: Yes we should, but not for this.
...that IE was a pile of cock.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
...calling this software the eCondom assumes that IE hasn't been shooting blanks this whole time...
On a related note, imagine telling your grandfather to "put an eCondom on" before he gets on the net to watch his stocks or whatever.
Grammar Lesson: you're is a contraction of "you are"; your means you possess something; yore means days gone by.
...and does not downgrade users Internet experience...
So nothing at all like a real condom then?
With some 80-odd million IE end-users getting pounded daily and relentlessly by the wild red-light district (Internet), I doubt that such AMUST 'eCondom' would help prevent 'pregnancy' (worm/trojans) or 'infection' (spyware/malware/adware) in a timely manner.
Using a non-Administrator account doesn't stop these vector attacks.
Just use something that is highly-resistance to these inane cross-site scripting silliness.
Firefox 1.5 with the following addins:
NoScript
FlashBlock
AdBlock
And, you will have better control over these phishing sites...
So, now they have condoms for the virtual world? You mean that I won't be able to feel it when I get f**ked by another exploit? Wait... I thought there were always Trojans available for IE. Yeah, people couldn't feel those either, until way after they were f'd.
Oh well, just trying to be funny.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
eDentalDam for Windows speech recognition?
Using IE without an eCondom leaves the chance of ending up with unwanted bastard processes...plus you might catch some nasty viruses.
So yes, I would say they chose that name correctly. It seems to work the same way...
Tluin natha Linux xxizzuss uriu olt bwael mon'tun.
However, if you want to set the background colors, you can now practice safe hex.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
As a dedicated techie, I think this is good.
As a stout catholic, condoms are evil and should not be used because every sperm is sacred.
As a dedicated techie that's also a stout catholic, I'm in a moral dilema! Couldn't they just have called this the "eAbstinence"?
Ash nazg durbatuluk, ash nazg gimbatul Ash nazg thrakatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
eCondom or not, if you use IE, you're still fscked.
Play it safe, practice abstinence:
Use Firefox!
GStreamer - The only way to stream!
Such options, of course, are already available, as a certain poster attests.
"eCondom reduces and eliminates the risks" Which is it? They're either lying or redundant.
How does this compare to Mike Howard's DropMyRights program?
The way DropMyRights works is you run it with the path to the target program as a command-line argument. It then spawns the target program automatically with lower privileges. (Maybe too simple; Mike Howard's implementation doesn't allow for passing command-line arguments to the target program itself, although the code is basic enough that others have made their own implementations.)
The only problem is that although it lets you easily modify the shortcut that starts Internet Explorer, there are plenty of ways to start IE without going through that shortcut. Without doing some registry hacking to change your file and protocol associations, it won't help you if you run, say, Outlook with administrator privileges and click a link in an email.
Does eCondom somehow address this? And if it does, then how does it allow exceptions (like going to Windows Update)?
I actually would like to see this program a little more intelligent and used for most bread&butter programs in use like the MS Office programs (Especially Outlook) as well as other web browsers.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
I thought the true solution to virii was abstinence - like do not use IE? There are always better alternatives - pleasuring yourself with writing free software licenced apps springs to my mind.
This is a wonderful product that you're hardly ever going to see on a corporate network due to fear of sexual harrassment lawsuits. Nice choice in names morons.