Re: IE Security-- useless
- From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:56:02 -0500
From: "Sync" <kdd21@xxxxxxxxxxx>
| Just tried running IE on a newly installed W2003 server box that we're
| setting up for testing. Then I needed to download some additional
| software for it from msdn. Default IE security settings made it
| impossible. The "gold bar's" only option is to "get help for the gold
| bar" or something like that. Directions there to fix the problem did
| not fix it. So, finally out of frustration I did two things-- first,
| turned off the popup blocker. Still not enough. Then, I went into
| security settings. Won't let me set it below High for the internet
| zone. So, I went into custom and set absolutely everything to ENABLE.
| Voila-- now I could finally download the needed Microsoft software
| from Microsoft's own site.
|
| IE security is great, but if users have to turn it all off like I did
| in order to get it to do the most basic operations that I *know* are
| not security breaches, then it's completely useless. Security is no
| good if it is so complicated that users will just turn it off out of
| frustration because they can't get their work done otherwise. Most
| users don't know an ActiveX download from any other kind or why they
| should care, the vast majority of security options are meaningless
| gibberish to a large number of users who, nonetheless need to download
| things occasionally.
|
| Microsoft: GET A CLUE GUYS! Quality matters. You need a Steve Jobs
| who will instantly veto such a release simply because there's no way an
| end user could be expected to put up with it. NOW I see why you
| constantly resort to underhanded lock-in schemes and anti-OSS FUD
| campaigns in order to protect your eroding customer base-- you are
| clearly fully aware that if people actually had a choice there's no way
| they'd EVER actually choose to use this crap.
You shouldn't be downloading from the POV of a server. That should be done from a
workstation and the files scanned for malware prior to being installed on the server.
You need to get a clue and realize that you don't use a server like you would a workstation.
That's not its role and you should respect its role and position in the LAN hierarchy.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
.
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