Port limiting is as easy to overcome anything unless everything is going through a firewall with stateful packet inspection anyway. There is no reason why the virus could't simply send the same information through a different port.
yeah, all of us geeks hate this proprietary browser stuff; however, lets not forget the whole reason why anybody can make any money on the net... consumers. Unless you don't work in tech, or don't care about losing your nice tech job, you need to keep the web convenient and flashy enough to keep the masses interested. Without interest in the net, interest in computers declines, with interest in computers declining, MS loses out on there OS market. I think that the notion that MS would try to push the use of IE after their loss in this trial is ridiculous. I'm sure that they will be distributing a 3rd party browser with Windows at the first hint of a loss. I do technical support for various products, some of them are web based. The majority of the people that use the interactive features don't know what the term "web browser" means, let alone the name and brand of the one that they are using. They will simply go to whatever is flashier and more functional from their perspective. I personally use Lynx as much as I use Mozilla, but I understand that I am no longer the target audience for the net (like I was about 10 years ago). and this flashy interactive crap needs to be there for anyone besides the geeks to bother using it! I think that if MS lost, there would be a large amout of people that would still use IE purly out of habit for a while, but once how crippled it actually is caught on, then I think that it would steadily die out over about 1 year's worth of time. No big bang, no dramatic explosion, just slowly die.
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That one is for a product called the elmo-phone that I used to do tech support at for this outsourced company. The other good one was if your voice can not be recognized by the product (it wasn't REALLY voice recognition, it just tested to see if there was any sound), elmo would say "elmo can't hear you!" in this really urgent voice. God damn that scared the crap out of a lot of kids.
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Port limiting is as easy to overcome anything unless everything is going through a firewall with stateful packet inspection anyway. There is no reason why the virus could't simply send the same information through a different port.
yeah, all of us geeks hate this proprietary browser stuff; however, lets not forget the whole reason why anybody can make any money on the net... consumers. Unless you don't work in tech, or don't care about losing your nice tech job, you need to keep the web convenient and flashy enough to keep the masses interested. Without interest in the net, interest in computers declines, with interest in computers declining, MS loses out on there OS market. I think that the notion that MS would try to push the use of IE after their loss in this trial is ridiculous. I'm sure that they will be distributing a 3rd party browser with Windows at the first hint of a loss. I do technical support for various products, some of them are web based. The majority of the people that use the interactive features don't know what the term "web browser" means, let alone the name and brand of the one that they are using. They will simply go to whatever is flashier and more functional from their perspective. I personally use Lynx as much as I use Mozilla, but I understand that I am no longer the target audience for the net (like I was about 10 years ago). and this flashy interactive crap needs to be there for anyone besides the geeks to bother using it! I think that if MS lost, there would be a large amout of people that would still use IE purly out of habit for a while, but once how crippled it actually is caught on, then I think that it would steadily die out over about 1 year's worth of time. No big bang, no dramatic explosion, just slowly die.
That one is for a product called the elmo-phone that I used to do tech support at for this outsourced company. The other good one was if your voice can not be recognized by the product (it wasn't REALLY voice recognition, it just tested to see if there was any sound), elmo would say "elmo can't hear you!" in this really urgent voice. God damn that scared the crap out of a lot of kids.