Re: Mozilla vs IE when it comes to security?

From: $uRoot (blackhole_at_thinktankdecoy.com)
Date: 08/24/03 

Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:55:31 -0400

Noi wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:32:22 -0400, without thought wrote:
>
> Yes all well and good but that doesn't help the original poster with his
> question about Mozilla running on XP. And I don't think the Mozilla on XP
> helps with the Blaster virus 1) if she went to the webpage containing the
> virus it would still infect Win9x-WinXP 2) the same if she downloaded the
> infected images from a newsgroup 3) or if she received the infected email.
> The virus was OS specific and did not impact Win3.x, Linux/Unix or Mac
> OS.
>
>

Blaster wasn't a virus - it was a worm. It had nothing to do with
browsers, email or usenet. Furthermore, it only infected NT, 2000 & XP.

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