Still using Internet Explorer? You'd better reconsider
Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 03:22 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
Slimbrowser
Dec 18, 2008
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.) wrote:
I use Google Chrome, SlimBrowser etc.
Unless I'm mistaken, Slimbrowser uses IE as a backend, so what applies to IE applies to Slimbrowser. Try finding a site that crashes IE, and see if it also crashes Slimbrowser. I'm not dissing Slimbrowser -- it can be useful to have a slimmer IE. I used CrazyBrowser for a long time, in the days when I had to work in a client's office on a very, very old and slow computer. CrazyBrowser was also an IE front-end.
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Jenny Forbes United Kingdom Local time: 02:22 Member (2006) French to English + ...
Thank you
Dec 18, 2008
Lawyer-Linguist wrote:
Jenny Forbes wrote:
This is worrying. Could someone please explain in what way Internet Explorer may be unsafe? What could happen? How could it affect one's computer?
Excuse my ingorance,
Regards,
Jenny
Thank you, Debs. I read the Guardian article you pointed out.
In fact first thing this morning Microsoft issued a "security update" which took several minutes to install itself. Perhaps this was the "patch" intended to deal with the IE problem?
Best wishes,
Jenny
PS: I tried Opera, Firefox and Google Chrome yesterday (you can download them from IE), and have settled for Opera - much quicker that IE on my computer and has also seemed to resolved an irritating incompatibility problem I was having with one of my other programs.
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xxxMarc P Germany Local time: 03:22 German to English + ...
Not religion, just facts
Dec 18, 2008
The Bit9 list is pure FUD, designed to boost Bit9's business.
The criteria for inclusion on the list are arbitrary. (And that's being generous to Bit9.) Any (Windows) application with a reported vulnerability stands a good chance of making it onto the list.
How quickly the vulnerabilities were patched is not taken into account.
Firefox security updates *can* be installed automatically, but the Bit9 list implies otherwise.
A decisive criterion for inclusion on the list is that security updates have to be possible using a "free Enterprise tools such as Microsoft SMS & WSUS". How, then, is Bit9's list relevant to ProZ members? How many ProZ members do you think are using Enterprise tools such as Microsoft SMS & WSUS to lock down their PCs and manage the software on them?
Applications that are real security nightmares don't even feature on the list, simply because Bit9 is able to lock them down and determine how they are used - which is what it wants you to pay it to do.
Marc
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ICL Spain Local time: 03:22 English to Spanish + ...
More information about overall browser security problems
Dec 18, 2008
I am not a Microsoft sect member, but as an old user of IE (currently beta version 8), merely for "practical" reasons, so I don't have to bother installing other browsers, I get the impression that the IE browser gets the most "security attacks" simply because it is the most "popular" one and maybe the other ones do not become as often the object of those attacks.
But all browsers have security problems. Here is more information about some general browser security problems:
On the other hand, I just downloaded (through my automatic update feature) the IE patch for the security problem about which Mihai informed us. So Microsoft is sometimes quick to solve these problems. More information about this:
P.S.: I don't use, though, Microsoft Outlook for email. I use Eudora (in this case I didn't mind installing it because in Eudora it is a lot easier to manage mailboxes than in Outlook, so I can understand that some people prefer to use other web browsers, for whatever reasons).
[Edited because I just added another link...]
[Edited at 2008-12-18 11:35 GMT]
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