At 12:00 PM 3/6/2006, you wrote:
>That's compleely opinion.
>
>I've never gotten a virus off a website popup using IE, once I set the
>security up. Firefox, didn't have the option not to download that
>particular virus..
>Hence my not using it anymore.
Funny, I've never gotten a virus using Firefox, and that's on default
settings. If it says "Do you want to download this file?" I click
"Cancel", like any person with half a brain cell would.
So, basically, you are saying that in order for people to not get infected
with IE, they need to specifically go in and set the security settings up,
which actually breaks some NORMAL things that depend on "normal" settings
instead of "Paranoid" settings. While people who use the default Firefox
have Normal settings and don't have the security holes (Notably, most of
the security bugs in Firefox have actually been in things that Firefox
trusts Windows API's to do properly, but they don't. It's kind of like
trusting a door to actually close and lock, and then discovering later that
the door that you didn't make but trusted to work actually doesn't.)...
Plus they don't have the things break because they have to have Paranoid
settings to be secure.
Anyway...
Using default install settings...
Method to get infected with IE:
View a web page.
No user interaction occurs. No confirmation boxes pop up. Nothing you can
cancel or say no to. Script on page downloads malware and installs it for you.
You are infected.
Method with Firefox:
View a web page.
Get asked "Do you want to download this file?"
Click "Yes, save as", type in a file name or accept the default...
RUN the file.
You are infected.
Method to get infected due to a bug in the software in situation where it
takes somebody a week to write an exploit for the bug:
IE:
Go somewhere in the two weeks between when the exploit is written and when
the patch is available without even knowing there is a bug.
Firefox:
Ignore the popup when you first run the program that says "You need to
update because we found a bug three days ago that somebody might be able to
exploit. Click here to update." for four more days.
How to piss off a web designer/site admin:
Using IE:
Use IE.
(Trust me, I run a site that was PERFECTLY valid HTML, stylesheets, and
full compliant with the actual official specifications, and IE couldn't get
it right for love nor money. I finally had to tell the server to give a
DIFFERENT page to IE users because of their broken browsers, because I'm
NOT going to break a page that works fine on EVERYTHING BUT IE just so that
screwed up browser will get it right.)
Using Firefox:
Damn hard, because it actually displays things properly. But Fasterfox
(Addon) will work for pissing them off or breaking things.
Received on Mon Mar 06 2006 - 14:27:54 CST