Tuesday, July 6. 2004
Browser wars starting up again?
Hopefully.
Netcraft seems to think so, pointing out that the SANS Internet Storm Center recommended that users use a browser other than MSIE and that CERT (now a part of the Department of Homeland Security) warned:
Of course, to REALLY be safe from the IE hacks, try a different Operating System.
Netcraft seems to think so, pointing out that the SANS Internet Storm Center recommended that users use a browser other than MSIE and that CERT (now a part of the Department of Homeland Security) warned:
There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser. Such a decision may, however, reduce the functionality of sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML, VBScript, and ActiveX. Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML).
Of course, to REALLY be safe from the IE hacks, try a different Operating System.
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