Re: Spyware and Adware affect every internet user

Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:4bsbokF12266kU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Fuzzy Logic wrote:

So let's say you are running the 'secure' Firefox 1.5.0.2. Why would
you need to install 1.5.0.3?

Stability issues and being less dependent on any second line of defense?

Because 1.5.0.2 has a critical security flaw and is in fact not
'secure'.

The flaw didn't apply due to a workaround already being implemented in
before.

Regardless of the browser you use there are going to be serious, but
as yet undiscovered/exploited flaws. So find a browser YOU like, keep
it patched, learn and use it's security features, practice safe
surfing and you will likely be as safe as you can be.

But IE has discovered unpatched flaws, so you can safely assume that it
will be exploited no matter how you try.

I don't like to assume anything.

Many of these 'flaws' have been around for quite some time and amazingly no one has taken advantage of
them (mostly becuase they are too obscure to do so). Of course if you visit malicious, pornographic or
malware sites you may wish to use another browser besides IE (though I would be nervous regardless of the
browser I was using).

This is why we have choices in OS's, browsers, AV software etc. as
they offer varying levels of security and functionality so that we as
users can pick the ones that best meet our needs. I've tried most
browsers and settled on Avant (IE shell...had tabbed browsing before
Firefox even existed). You obviously have gone another route.

No, I've been willing to draw rational conclusions: IE is no alternative
in first place and keeps on being excluded until Microsoft fixes at
least the known security problems.

IE is not an alternative for YOU. Others, including myself, believe that the risks of the known security issues
have been overblown. This is primarly because of Firefox who touted their browser as more secure than IE.
Now that Firefox has been around for a while and numerous critical flaws have been found and fixed their
website lists security quite a ways down on the list (used to be #1) of reasons why you should use it.

I support an organization of over 600 IE users and in the many years I have been here we have never had a
security incident related to the web browser.

.

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