arstechnica.com— Microsoft does not recommend that Internet Explorer users install Google Chrome Frame, in order to avoid having more security issues.
Sep 24, 2009View in Crawl 4
Be careful there man. Reckless web surfing is a gateway drug to heroin, cocaine, meth, homosexuality, AND EVEN JENKEM. This is why the republicans are trying to regulate it. So unless you want to end up in some perverts dungeon, shooting crack cocaine, heroin, and meth up your arm, and desperately sniffing you masters s**t when he feeds it to you for breakfast to get high, YOU STOP THAT RECKLESS WEB SURFING NOW!
ActiveX have not been able to auto run since IE6. In both IE7 & IE8 the user has to allow ActiveX to processes to run. The user also has to allow ActiveX to install. There haven't been drive by installs in years. IE also has Smart Screen Filter as well as InPrivate Filtering, both of which work well. Finally in the chance that something does get in it can't do anything because IE7 & IE8 run in a sand box mode that blocks program installs/changes to the system. On top of that IE allows the use of black lists; so if a person is responsible they don't even get the prompts.This is why we're seeing more social engineering sites like the one the pops up saying it's scanning the C: drive. And even those sites are being reported and added to MS's official safe smart screen filter.IE has changed a lot in the past few years and many of you haven't even been paying attention and bury someone into oblivion if they dare say otherwise. I'm not saying IE doesn't have problems but IE8 is not IE6 and the year isn't 2001, it i's time many of you stop acting like it.
@ 80hd, RE: " .. open notepadtype "This app can break" without the quotes.save, closereopen. Nothing from MS is safe from being done wrong.Notepad thinks you are displaying 16bit unicode. Notepad is about as simple of a program as you could write and they messed that up.."Wow, that's just astounding.
@KhastWhich browser does not?Firefix is renowned for its plugins?IE is hated for them.Chrome is uhhhhhhh both maybe?Opera is, well idk, your browser of choice?
Seems to have been fixed in Windows 7. :(I tried it with no capitalization at all as well as copying & pasting what you wrote (no quotes) and it didn't work.
i think 7000 should do the trick.@ravedigger, wish I could digg you twice@gigglestick, wish I could digg you 3 times... but I'm too lazy to start new accounts.
So if we accept this logic at face value as valid then doesn't that mean that Microsoft Security Essentials will make your computer less secure if you download and install it?Because the two things seem kind of parallel. You are adding software in both cases in the hopes that it will make your computer safer.
Closed AccountSep 25, 2009
Be careful there man. Reckless web surfing is a gateway drug to heroin, cocaine, meth, homosexuality, AND EVEN JENKEM. This is why the republicans are trying to regulate it. So unless you want to end up in some perverts dungeon, shooting crack cocaine, heroin, and meth up your arm, and desperately sniffing you masters s**t when he feeds it to you for breakfast to get high, YOU STOP THAT RECKLESS WEB SURFING NOW!
darkshroudSep 26, 2009
ActiveX have not been able to auto run since IE6. In both IE7 & IE8 the user has to allow ActiveX to processes to run. The user also has to allow ActiveX to install. There haven't been drive by installs in years. IE also has Smart Screen Filter as well as InPrivate Filtering, both of which work well. Finally in the chance that something does get in it can't do anything because IE7 & IE8 run in a sand box mode that blocks program installs/changes to the system. On top of that IE allows the use of black lists; so if a person is responsible they don't even get the prompts.This is why we're seeing more social engineering sites like the one the pops up saying it's scanning the C: drive. And even those sites are being reported and added to MS's official safe smart screen filter.IE has changed a lot in the past few years and many of you haven't even been paying attention and bury someone into oblivion if they dare say otherwise. I'm not saying IE doesn't have problems but IE8 is not IE6 and the year isn't 2001, it i's time many of you stop acting like it.
Closed AccountSep 26, 2009
Running IE makes IE less secure.
mrbitchSep 26, 2009
@ 80hd, RE: " .. open notepadtype "This app can break" without the quotes.save, closereopen. Nothing from MS is safe from being done wrong.Notepad thinks you are displaying 16bit unicode. Notepad is about as simple of a program as you could write and they messed that up.."Wow, that's just astounding.
gilbesSep 26, 2009
@KhastWhich browser does not?Firefix is renowned for its plugins?IE is hated for them.Chrome is uhhhhhhh both maybe?Opera is, well idk, your browser of choice?
falco217Sep 26, 2009
Seems to have been fixed in Windows 7. :(I tried it with no capitalization at all as well as copying & pasting what you wrote (no quotes) and it didn't work.
Closed AccountSep 26, 2009
yeah, they fixed it
myztrySep 27, 2009
@TheSabre - Microsoft aren't being forced to do anything. But if they leave gaps, then those gaps will be filled...
anoriginalnameOct 17, 2009
i think 7000 should do the trick.@ravedigger, wish I could digg you twice@gigglestick, wish I could digg you 3 times... but I'm too lazy to start new accounts.
johnnysoftwareOct 21, 2009
So if we accept this logic at face value as valid then doesn't that mean that Microsoft Security Essentials will make your computer less secure if you download and install it?Because the two things seem kind of parallel. You are adding software in both cases in the hopes that it will make your computer safer.