Re: All patches, but still exploited

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:08:47 -0700

"Jeff Cochran" <jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com> wrote in message
news:4084bb5d.3256102@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:30:31 -0700, "Roger Abell [MVP]"
> <mvpNoSpam@asu.edu> wrote:
>
> >"Greg" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> >news:O8mhcSBIEHA.3248@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >> "Jeff Cochran" <jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com> wrote in message
> >> news:408c8224.105687470@msnews.microsoft.com...
> >>> Did you change the Server 2003 IE security settings or disable the
> >>> firewall?
> >>>
> >>> Jeff
> >>
> >> I uninstalled the secure mode for IE. I'm not sure why this would
matter
> >> since it's not installed on XP and never had a problem. I would expect
IE
> >> to be just as secure under Windows 2003 and Windows XP. Why should I
have
> >> to specify each site to allow myself to browse? I'll switch to Linux
> >> before
> >> that happens.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >The world is a moving target. Try Opera or Foxfire before Linux.
> >While simple systems are more simple to secure, one looses too
> >much functionality.
>
> Opera and the Mozilla family suffer from some issues as well, though
> they may have avoided this one. Anything that will run a client-side
> script or control can be a security issue.
>
> Jeff

True enough Jeff, and implementations have differences
in how fully they have kept to the initial sandbox concept. 

-- 
Roger Abell

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