Re: Microsoft to release patch for IE flaw

Glenn wrote:
"Rita" <Rita@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:rd1lk4lvg77pi6m4tsb9k3u9ctpi9eaut1@xxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:14:02 -0600, "Glenn" <minorgo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"SordoT" <sordoT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For those of you still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer web
browser,
you can go here and download the emergency security patch.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-078.mspx



IE 7 is much more friendly than Firefox as it's updates don't take the
system down and keep it there. One would think that a defective patch
would be corrected in the next update, but not at firefox.

The above patch has already been distributed if one has automatic
update.

I have never had a Firefox update take the system down and keep it
there. I don't know what you are talking about.

Apparently their test case is identical to your configuration. However, shortly after the flawed update was made available, another update appeared that didn't have the problem, it also didn't have a fix for the problem the previous update created.

My reasons for preferring Firefox are multiple. One of the big pluses
is AdBlock, an add on that keeps ads from annoying one on web pages.
Another add on is Flash Block that allow YOU to decide which Flash
content you care to view.

I have no idea what you are talking about, with IE a banner appears if there is ad or drop down available and one can chose to view it or not. Again, I have no idea of how one sees flash content or what you are talking about as I'm always given the choice and with dialup, I seldom chose it. Perhaps it's Norton. Now listen closely, no program remains superior for long, so the criteria is problem resolution and fixes, an area where all these free software programs necessarily fail.

Not in my yard.
Firefox and Thunderbird have performed flawlessly and 'never' cause
shut downs for updates.
I have broadband and my provider must help with spam, because I
never get any of that either.
So - for me - and others, these programs have remained superior.
Obviously YMMV,

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