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Re: The whole IE business
"Microsoft has stubbornly said it 'cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw.'"Originally posted by bascule View Post
There is a reason many of us use other browsers! The only time I ever use IE is IETab within Firefox, when there are sites I absolutely need IE to work (sadly, there are still some out there).
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Re: The whole IE business
I wonder if MS had made any attempts to 'infiltrate' the underground world where these things are written in an effort to get a leg up on the 2nd Wednesday 0days that come out?A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.Comment
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There are also companies who will refused to allow users to have anything but IE installed on a system. One can argue that they are possibly jeopardizing their employee's safety online..then again, in certain hands no browser will be able to fully protect. Oh yeah I forgot, employee's shouldn't be on sites that would contain data that endangers their identity right?Originally posted by theprez98 View PostThere is a reason many of us use other browsers! The only time I ever use IE is IETab within Firefox, when there are sites I absolutely need IE to work (sadly, there are still some out there).
Doesn't sound like it would be that bad of an idea for them. Then again whose to say that it's not microsoft employees writing the thingsOriginally posted by streaker69 View Post Okay, my bad, that's a bit too conspiracy theorist for even me....
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Re: The whole IE business
That may have been the correct thinking a couple years ago. But today with the number of exploited websites, even innocent sites can be serving up malware.Originally posted by afterburn188 View PostThere are also companies who will refused to allow users to have anything but IE installed on a system. One can argue that they are possibly jeopardizing their employee's safety online..then again, in certain hands no browser will be able to fully protect. Oh yeah I forgot, employee's shouldn't be on sites that would contain data that endangers their identity right?
The only real solution, to quote WOPR, is not to play.A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.Comment
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how many of them need IE to render properly vs. servers running some nonsense scripting that blocks "unapproved browsers" out of hand?Originally posted by theprez98 View Post
i keep the user-agent switcher plugin at the ready with Firefox and i'd say basically every time i get a "you must use IE" message, i reload the page with the fake internet explorer browser tag and it works just fine.
i agree that there are a few sites out there that are still very full of fail and just require MSIE, but i do not routinely encounter them at all."I'll admit I had an OiNK account and frequented it quite often… What made OiNK a great place was that it was like the world's greatest record store… iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. I feel like I'm being hustled when I visit there, and I don't think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc... OiNK it existed because it filled a void of what people want."
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Primarily for me are some intranet SharePoint sites that lose some (required) functionality in Firefox. Although I am curious to try the user-agent switcher plugin and see how it works.Originally posted by Deviant Ollam View Post
Edit: Yeah, sadly, IE is needed to render the SharePoint sites correctly."\x74\x68\x65\x70\x72\x65\x7a\x39\x38";Comment
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I love you bascule. I think Bill should be tarred and feathered for IE, and Winblows!Comment
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Just FYI, Patch released...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...ry/961051.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-078.mspxAnd I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, And I looked and behold: a pale horse. And his name, that sat on him, was Death. And Hell followed with him.Comment
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I just installed it on my laptop and now my WPA key is missing. Not a big deal really, but I wonder if that's part of the patch.Originally posted by HighWiz View PostA third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.Comment
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And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, And I looked and behold: a pale horse. And his name, that sat on him, was Death. And Hell followed with him.Comment
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Yep. It only did it for my Office network key, my home network key was still there. So it was quite odd.Originally posted by HighWiz View PostA third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.Comment
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I think the odds of Microsoft admitting anything like that have the same frequency of occurrence as hell freezing over.Originally posted by theprez98 View Post
xorJust because you can doesn't mean you should. This applies to making babies, hacking, and youtube videos.Comment
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Re: The whole IE business
MS released the fix as another 'out of band' Critical Update.Thorn
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