IE users: take note of this!

Skybird · 09-27-06, 06:49 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5384170.stm

Immacolata · 09-27-06, 06:52 AM

Sheesh, another patch for the swiss cheese that is Internet Exploiter. In exactly 14 days my new macbook will arrive. And I will bid this flawed OS and its flawed browser good riddance. Keeping my Silent Hunter rig standing by, but all vital communication heresoforth will happen within the OS X environment...

bradclark1 · 09-27-06, 08:52 AM

How often have you been bitten/took-over/wormed with XP?

Immacolata · 09-27-06, 09:01 AM

Let me see, I have suffered at least a dozen virus attacks during my Windows years, and I have been subject to half as many browser hijacks due to clueless family members (my self included) getting "Free smileys" and that sort of crap. The last infection I had was especially nasty and took me most of a sunday to clean up.

I have felt it partner. And I am not happy about it.

But on Mac OS X there are rarely hijacks. And nothing installs itself without asking for the admin password. Which means not very many trojans stand a chance of ever installing.

bradclark1 · 09-27-06, 09:28 AM

If that was in 98 yes you're right. In XP I'd be a little suprised. I'm not a microsoft evangelist, just curious.

STEED · 09-27-06, 09:43 AM

I've had XP for a good two years and still getting patches to plug the gaps, today I got a email telling me how great Vista is well no thanks and deleted that one.

Back in the 1960's they said we will have wall to wall technology doing all the work for us and we will have so much free time and so on, technology don't you just love it.

Immacolata · 09-27-06, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bradclark1

If that was in 98 yes you're right. In XP I'd be a little suprised. I'm not a microsoft evangelist, just curious.

Since Windows 98, through Windows 2000 (which I must admit was rather uneventful). Macroviruses in office docs. VBScript viruses like Iloveyou. A single or two ActiveX sploits. The brunt of the viruses was under Win 98, the trojans and spyware under Windows XP. It doesn't take much the first time to fool a user. Then you learn and don't repeat. But that is first after having had to clean out your system from malware. having done that too many times I can't wait to wave goodbye to the mediocre user experience that windows has turned out to be.

Not BAD. Just not especially transparent, alas.

09-27-06, 06:49 AM	#1
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09-27-06, 06:52 AM	#2
Immacolata Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 798 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Sheesh, another patch for the swiss cheese that is Internet Exploiter. In exactly 14 days my new macbook will arrive. And I will bid this flawed OS and its flawed browser good riddance. Keeping my Silent Hunter rig standing by, but all vital communication heresoforth will happen within the OS X environment... __________________ "The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." - W. Churchill

09-27-06, 09:01 AM	#4
Immacolata Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 798 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Let me see, I have suffered at least a dozen virus attacks during my Windows years, and I have been subject to half as many browser hijacks due to clueless family members (my self included) getting "Free smileys" and that sort of crap. The last infection I had was especially nasty and took me most of a sunday to clean up. I have felt it partner. And I am not happy about it. But on Mac OS X there are rarely hijacks. And nothing installs itself without asking for the admin password. Which means not very many trojans stand a chance of ever installing. __________________ "The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." - W. Churchill

09-27-06, 09:43 AM	#6
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	I've had XP for a good two years and still getting patches to plug the gaps, today I got a email telling me how great Vista is well no thanks and deleted that one. Back in the 1960's they said we will have wall to wall technology doing all the work for us and we will have so much free time and so on, technology don't you just love it. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

09-27-06, 08:52 AM	#3
bradclark1 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Connecticut, USA. Posts: 2,794 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	How often have you been bitten/took-over/wormed with XP?

09-27-06, 09:28 AM	#5
bradclark1 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Connecticut, USA. Posts: 2,794 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	If that was in 98 yes you're right. In XP I'd be a little suprised. I'm not a microsoft evangelist, just curious.