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IE 8 To Include New Security Tools

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hopefully-half-of-them-work dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Internet Explorer has been a security punching bag for years, and rightfully so. IE 6 was arguably the least secure browser of all time. But Microsoft has been trying to get their act together on security, and the new beta of IE 8, due in August, will have a slew of new security features, including protection against Type-1 cross-site scripting attacks, a better phishing filter and better security for ActiveX controls."

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  1. Better security for ActiveX controls by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or scrap ActiveX controls?

    1. Re:Better security for ActiveX controls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      > MS can't drop ActiveX or it would lose the Korean market.

      Lose it to whom? There aren't any other ActiveX providers, so if MS dropped ActiveX, South Korea would have no choice but to use whatever MS would provide as replacement.

    2. Re:Better security for ActiveX controls by IntlHarvester · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually, I'm not. If you look at that Firefox plug-in I linked above, it uses a site whitelist which makes it considerably more secure than IE. Just because IE has/had poor ActiveX security doesn't mean another browser would have the same policies.

      Look at the posts in this thread. Everyone's convinced that "ActiveX==BAD" while they probably have 50 Firefox add-ins and plug-ins installed. They're the basically the same damn thing, so I'll maintain this is almost entirely a perception issue (which exists for valid, but historical reasons).

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  2. Re:Was I the only one to misread the title? by kjart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Was I the only one to misread the title as: "IE 8 To Include New Security Holes" ?

    That's true for almost everything new. As complexity rises, so does the chance of a problem, and browsers are surprisingly complex nowadays.