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Firefox Users Surf Safer
SenseOfHumor writes "According to two University of Washington Professors, Firefox users have a safer browsing experience than users of IE. These researchers sent their crawlers to 45,000 websites and studied the impact on Firefox and IE." From the article: "Levy and Gribble, along with graduate students Alexander Moshchuk and Tanya Bragin, set up IE in two configurations -- one where it behaved as if the user had given permission for all downloads, the other as if the user refused all download permission -- to track the number of successful spyware installations. During Levy's and Gribble's most recent crawl of October 2005, 1.6 percent of the domains infected the first IE configuration, the one mimicking a nave user blithely clicking 'Yes;' about a third as many domains (0.6 percent) did drive-by downloads by planting spyware even when the user rejected the installations."
Argh!
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What the fuck does leveraged mean!?
I was under the impression that it involves a lever and a pivot point.
Yes, I know it's a buzzword, but this one is getting fucking ridicilous!
Dictionary.com has nothing to correlate leverage and utility. Link.
Next time advertisers and marketers decide to play buzzword bingo I hope they pick "Selma Hayek" as the buzzword of the month.
Most of the exploits that leveraged IE vulnerabilities to plant spyware were based on ActiveX and JavaScript, said Gribb.
parent: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060210/tc_cmp/17910
World Wind leverages satellite imagery and elevation data to allow users to experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.
http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/World_Wind
learn how other organizations leverage the pod
https://forums.omnipod.com/
And of course, to stay on topic, I'll save us all the trouble:
Firefox Users Surf Safer
No shit Sherlock?
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It took two professors and two grad assistents to come to this conclusion? Money well spent Washington, money well spent.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
The Sun gives us light and heat.
Smart people are more intelligent.
Small towns have fewer people than larger towns.
Most American cars run on gasoline.
Do NOT mod up any posts by CyricZ in this discussion. He likes trolling all firefox discussions with disparaging and unfounded remarks on firefox "bloat" with vague technically sounding remarks (and backpedals whenever someone confronts him on the inaccuracies in what he says), always faboying over Opera instead. These remarks should be modded offtopic here! (As should mine be, but let it live at AC 0 so that your fellow mods will see it too.)
They have the internet on computers now?
It's misleading to think that Firefox prevents all Windows-based spyware. It doesn't. It is quite easy for a Firefox user to unknowingly install malicious software.
The only real way to combat spyware today is to use a system like Linux, Mac OS X, or if possible, OpenBSD. An even better idea is to use a browser like Konqueror or Opera, which is known to have a very solid track record. The recent 1.5.x release of Firefox did ship with numerous problems, and that has lead to many switching away from it to the alternatives.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.