Re: IE, to bad, so sad

On Jan 27, 6:19 pm, Tommy Troll <tom_e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 27, 12:11 pm,Thundercleets<thundercle...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

M$ desperation with IE is sad.

They should be happy that most Windows users are clueless about the
insecurity of IE and live with it.

M$ should buy Opera and call it IE 8.1, at least it would be secure
and definitely faster.

See it here:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/microsoft_ie8_chain_letter/

Google "Opera Security".  Lots of issues out there...

Opera patches seven security flaws
Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 17 Dec 2008 14:44 GMT

Opera has issued an update to its web-browser software to fix seven
vulnerabilities, two of them rated by the company as 'extremely
severe'

PLUS, Opera users are not very good about applying updates...

Easy updates best for browser patching

By John Leyden

Posted in Enterprise Security, 27th January 2009 15:03 GMT

Easy update mechanisms have a far greater effect on browser patching
than perceived threats or other factors, according to a new study by
Google and Swiss academics.

The in-depth comparative study into how browser security packages are
updated discovered that Firefox's update mechanism is the most
successful at getting users onto the latest version. Despite this, a
steady percentage of insecure surfers - never lower than 20 per cent
throughout 2007 - is always using an insecure version of Firefox.

By comparison, 54 cent of Opera users are relying on older versions of
the web browser software.

Microsoft can't and won't fix at least 2 serious errors in IE and
Windows binary data objects and thread permissions. BDOs run at the
same level as the browser and can run anything in the OS at that
level.
Windows has a problem where you can have a thread running in the
sandbox ask a thread with higher level access execute an operation.

I'd like to see the number of older version of Firefox versus IE 6
users...
.

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