German government warns against using MS Explorer

[John Hacker]

Now this must be the news of 2010

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service
Packs, IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.
Either M$ is now threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is
completely rubbish. Either way we should start taking instructions
from the German government if this article is anything to go by.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm>

Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?

 

[Carmel]

Now this must be the news of 2010

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service
Packs, IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.
Either M$ is now threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is
completely rubbish. Either way we should start taking instructions
from the German government if this article is anything to go by.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm>

Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?

Microsoft has never taken "security", despite their claims, seriously.
As long as they can convince users to use their products, they have no
incentive to strengthen their products against security threats. The
basic underlying architecture of Windows itself is virtually void of
security. Anyone interested in real security would use a non-win32/64
system. My own company switched to FreeBSD, and conversely MUAs, etc. a
few years ago. Since that time not a single virus or Trojan has ever
appeared on our system. The time and expense (virtually $0 dollars) of
switching was more than offset in the savings on AV software, etc alone.

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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The time and expense (virtually $0 dollars) of
switching was more than offset in the savings on AV software, etc alone.

Absolutely no lost productivity due to employees learning new software?

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[senn]

Now this must be the news of 2010

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service
Packs, IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.
Either M$ is now threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is
completely rubbish. Either way we should start taking instructions
from the German government if this article is anything to go by.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm>

Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?

The reason of what look likes to you of many more virus
infections in IE browsers are surely a result of the very profound
inegualities in market share. This inegualities is perhaps as profound
as around 1 to 99 or till something around 5 to 99.
That said; you're right on another point. Windows users has been
overloaded with problems araising from the fact that too many new
programs has been sent out having problems, even all formers never
gets fully unbuged. Even far from unbuged. The company apparently
needs money and/or lacks qualified programmers.
And my windows 7 64bit is just as slow as Vista was. In fact, windows 7
is a disguised Vista.
/senn

 

[Peter Foldes]

Senn

What have you been smoking.

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

In fact, windows 7 is a disguised Vista.

Indeed Windows 7 is a disguised Windows 3.1.

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[Harry Johnston [MVP]]

Indeed Windows 7 is a disguised Windows 3.1.

... running on an emulator known as NT?

Harry.

 

[Harry Johnston [MVP]]

The reason of what look likes to you of many more virus
infections in IE browsers are surely a result of the very profound
inegualities in market share. This inegualities is perhaps as profound
as around 1 to 99 or till something around 5 to 99.

Actually not that high any more, if I remember the latest estimates correctly.
However, it is worth remembering that in this case the attackers were after
specific individuals, so they had to attack whatever software those individuals
were using. It is likely that, had the targets been using, say, Firefox, or
Chrome, the attackers would have been able to find a suitable vulnerability in
either of those browsers.

Harry.

 

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

... running on an emulator known as NT?

Hehehehe Details, details.

Tony
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