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Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx

Posted by Soulskill on from the browsers-with-character dept.

Jibbler writes "Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."

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  1. My Amiga 4000 is running NetSurf just fine. by Phizzle · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nothing beats old school! Zero problems whatsoever, system has a failsafe - it simply chokes and kicks out GuruMeditation error screen any time any script of Flash tries to run. Been virus free since the SCA virus in 1987!

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