Re: Just venting (totally OT)

Rowland McDonnell wrote:

It might be worthwhile considering installing a spyware protection program.

It'd be a very good idea, but you'd need to find one that works well.
And that'd take research of more detail that `Whatever PC Answers told
me to do'.

I've done my research Rowland and PC Answers is also a bloody good
magazine. If you can point out better free anti virus, firewall, anti
spyware programs than the ones i mentioned to Mandy i would be very
grateful.

writers specifically write their nasties to exploit vulnerabilities in
Internet Explorer.

That is a common misconception.

Malware authors write their nasties to exploit vulnerabilities in MS IE
because MS IE has /many/ more vulnerabilities than any other Web
browser.

Sorry Rowland, I dont buy that at all.

Using your logic if Opera had many more vulnerabilities than IE the bad guys would write their nasties to exploit Opera instead of focusing on IE even though Opera has a very small % of the browser market. What's the point in trying to exploit vulnerabilities in a browser that the majority of PC users have never even heard of let alone use?

The baddies aim their nasties at IE coz of the numbers of people who use it. In addition, IE users are less computer literate than users of firefox, opera etc and so their pcs will more vulnerable.

The baddies want results for their efforts which is why they go for IE users due to their numbers and computer naivety. Yes, IE is less secure than other browsers but that is not the reason the browser is targeted imho.

Loz
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