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Duh what a bunch of whiners

Yes you can make IE secure and therefore shut out 60% of the content out there. This article should have been posted on April 1st with one more slide, detach any cable from modem that exits through a wall. Firefox is no more secure because it is not necessarily the browser but the Internet that is unsecure. Websites that depend on the idiot assumption to lure people on doing things they should know better than doing. Yeah jump to Apple, it took aproximately 24 hours to identify 16 security holes in their new Safari Browser and four more to show the same exploits worked against OS X. We choose our browsers based on personal likes and dislikes, I dislike Firfox because its interface seems unfinished to me and it doesn't work with all my basic websites, that is my personal prefrence. Others swear up and down that Firefox is more secure, that is the Ostrich approach, then the malware they get they blame on the OS, not their surfing habits. Malware depends on social engineering to spread, does anyone remember Gator and all the havoc it played on computers. More computers got broke because everyone had to have the cute little gator or monkey and such on their desktops. Remember Kazza another program for doing one thing but it loaded your computer with all sorts of crap that it was broke. P.T. Barnum had it right when he said a sucker is born every ten seconds. It is how spam marketers succeed and how malware is spread, not the setting of your browser. All the baddies have to do is lure you to the site, because most people don't have the sense they were born with and will follow the candy trail rather than think about what they are doing.

Browsers insecure no, it's the idiot sitting in front of the screen that is insecure.

Posted by: Rndmacts   Posted on: 06/13/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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