Re: Spyware and Adware affect every internet user

Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:4bsma8F12kspqU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Fuzzy Logic wrote:

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).

You're wrong, these flaws are getting exploited all day long. This has
actually gone so far that Microsoft declared some of them to be features.

References?

Of course if you visit malicious, pornographic or malware sites you
may wish to use another browser besides IE

Every website including third-party content is malicious. Google is, the
Microsoft website is, Slashdot is, I guess even ubuntu-forums.com is.

You obviously have a different defintion of malicious than I do.

(though I would be nervous regardless of the browser I was using).

Why? No webbrowser needs to be exploitable in first place. Well, but IE.

Of course they don't need to be exploitable, they just are. That's because none of them are or ever will be
perfect.

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.

Fine, but I rather prefer facts over believe.

This is primarly because of Firefox who touted their browser as more
secure than IE.

No, this is primarily because you believe such marketing bull***.
Beside that this claim turned out to be true.

Both sides are using marketing BS. I don't believe either or them.

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.

None you detected. BTW, which of your employees told you that he has
been spoofed?

Our AV software prevents spoofing.

And, another good keyword for you: reliability

Your point?
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