June 28, 2004
Have you stopped using IE yet?
Posted by ryan at 11:53 AM in computers . | 4 Comments
I have. Especially after reading and testing this analysis of the IE hole. CERT (a division of Homeland Security) recommends you start using Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape or Opera too. Personally I recommend Firefox. In many/most ways, it is better than IE, even without the security issue.
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Yeah I recently became a fan of firefox. I hated netscape becasue it runs slow on my outdated machine, but firefox is perfect. And tabbed browsing is sweet. Posted by: polamex at June 28, 2004 12:54 PM |
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Yeah. I like Firefox a lot, but the security issues with IE are getting out of hand. Have you been to the Kelly Blue Book site lately? It was infected with code that utilizes the IE hole to install a trojan on your computer. The trojan was a keystroke listener. Hope you haven't bought anything online lately with IE. At the bottom of the analysis link I posted there is an example. It downloads a program (exe) from the web and runs it on your machine. There are no patches that fix this bug yet. Posted by: ryan at June 28, 2004 9:55 PM |
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Yeah, this group of Russians gather CC nums and sell them for $1 to $3 a piece. The intersting thing is that these sites were manually hacked; it wasn't a worm that spread or anything. Patched IIS systems didn't look vulnerable to the manual hack least I heard. Posted by: polamex at June 29, 2004 10:46 AM |
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Russians... never up to any good. Posted by: ryan at June 29, 2004 11:10 AM |