Re: Is MSIE dead as a browser - if Microsoft does not patch it then it is as far as I am concerned!

From: henry baker (holmes_at_sherlock.buz)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:03:17 -0400

WinGuy after telling us that the game's afoot, managed on Fri, 25 Jun 2004
23:58:20 +0000, to write:

 
> The fact that a fully updated IE is vulnerable to this exploit would have
> made almost no difference if the servers had all been patched as they
> should have been.

*IF* the servers had been patched.
*IF* wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
You are attempting to spin the classic victim/criminal switcheroo

The fact is that a perfectly fully patched home computer with
up-to-date AV definitions is vulnerable to an attack by a hacker.
And people wonder why some do not like Microsoft's attitude toward
security?
Fortunately, the russian site has been shut down; but who knows what's
next. How many patches will it take to make my XP OX as secure as my
Panther or SuSE OS? That's the question - and the answer is not that there
are some bad people out there - - we all know that. What we want is good
programmers at MS. Maybe the could get rid of some of their liars and hire
some programmers in their place? Patenting the human body interface or
the double-click is cute; but it doesn't make XP any more secure, does it?
I still use MS products and to date have never gotten an infection, but
that day may come, and I am in the business and very careful.
In truth, today I have become very disillusioned with MS security. The
hackers are smarter than the MS programmers, and certainly smarter than
the MS liars.

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