Yet another reason to ditch IE

[N8]

I realize none of you choir boys browse porn sites, but thought I'd post this up anyways. Yet another reason to ditch IE.
....if you havn't already done so.

Porn sites exploit new IE flaw
September 19, 2006, 3:58 PM PT

Miscreants are using an unpatched security bug in Internet Explorer to install malicious software from rigged Web sites, experts warned Tuesday.

"Fully patched Internet Explorer browsers are vulnerable," Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense, said in an e-mailed statement. "This new zero-day attack is trivial to reproduce and has great potential for widespread Web-based attacks in the near future."

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6117407.html

[binary visions]

I love how these dumbass writers always through words in there like "unpatched" or "unprotected"... If it were patched or protected, it wouldn't be a flaw, and you wouldn't be writing an article about it, smart guys.

[BigMike]

I love how these dumbass writers always through words in there like "unpatched" or "unprotected"... If it were patched or protected, it wouldn't be a flaw, and you wouldn't be writing an article about it, smart guys.

Who are you, the voice of reason or somthing?

oh..... wait...

[BurlyShirley]

People still use IE?

[SofaKingBanned]

should I jump FF ship and go to Opera?

[sanjuro]

uh which porn sites?

[SkaredShtles]

What's IE? :confused:

[syadasti]

should I jump FF ship and go to Opera?

As long as you keep them patched too. FF has gone from 1.5 to 1.5.0.7 in the past six months for various flaws too. They seem to go up 1.5.0.X every month or so.

[SkaredShtles]

should I jump FF ship and go to Opera?
You don't need to "jump ship" - they'll all live happily together on the same desktop. I use FF for day to day stuff, Opera occasionally, and IE if I *have* to.

[sanjuro]

You don't need to "jump ship" - they'll all live happily together on the same desktop. I use FF for day to day stuff, Opera occasionally, and IE if I *have* to.

Of course, how could you remove IE? It is an integral part of the O/S...

[johnbryanpeters]

http://pew.vatican.com/albums/just_thinking/IE7.jpg

[BigMike]

Of course, how could you remove IE? It is an integral part of the O/S...

Like This? (http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html)

I havent tried it, and i'm kinda scared to

[Quo Fan]

I used to work for a computer store, and we used ieradicator regularly. Works the bomb. Gets rid of IE everywhere on the computer. We used it when we got off-lease computers that had IE crippled so we could reload IE so we could sell the computer.

[Transcend]

http://pew.vatican.com/albums/just_thinking/IE7.jpg

Just as lousy as 6. It also breaks many websites that were coded especially to run with 6. They both read the CSS box model incorrectly, only they do it differently. They both cock up rendering web pages equally though!

Thanks, MS.

[SkaredShtles]

Of course, how could you remove IE? It is an integral part of the O/S...
I just get rid of all the shortcuts to it. Out of sight, you know....

[johnbryanpeters]

Just as lousy as 6. It also breaks many websites that were coded especially to run with 6. They both read the CSS box model incorrectly, only they do it differently. They both cock up rendering web pages equally though!

Thanks, MS.

Meh - I like the tabbed interface. Different strokes and all that...

[SkaredShtles]

Meh - I like the tabbed interface. Different strokes and all that...
M$ *finally* caught on to tabbed browsing? :clue:

[Transcend]

Tabs have been around on every other browser for what..5 years now? Way to go MS. I wouldn't exactly call that a feature.

IE7 WILL break many , many sites. It isn't a single step in the right direction. MS completely missed the boat again, not like that is a big surprise however.

They could have made it pass the acid 2 test, and actually obey standards like Opera, FireFox, Safari and Konqueror. Nope, instead they decide to do their own thing and piss off developers everywhere.