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mikedothJan 5, 2011
Zero day, seriously?
dormynJan 5, 2011
Firefox ftw.
darkshroudJan 5, 2011
Firefox is slow, bloated, & still doesn't have a sandbox mode.
mstrdiggJan 5, 2011
Firefox feels faster than IE on my system, doesn't ship bloated (neither does IE really) and have you ever heard of IE's protected mode helping anyone? I haven't. The first thing people do is learn how to turn it off instead of learn how to properly use it. Adblock+ and Noscript are much more useful, I think.
darkshroudJan 5, 2011
Did you confuse IE's Protected mode & User Account Control? Have you tried the IE9 beta?
Also IE does have an ad blocker. http://simple-adblock.com/Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
stasis88Jan 6, 2011
LOL, you still use IE?
darkshroudJan 6, 2011
Yes as does the majority of the entire planet. But hey nice job of anyone actually responding to my questions. But that's why I should expect from digg.
starfishsystemsJan 5, 2011
Firefox is fast and lightweight. Oh, you mean on Windows? Everything is slow and bloated on Windows. My Linux workstation is ten years old and it runs circles around a new laptop with 8 times the memory running Windows.
Any security architect will tell you that the operating system is the component which has to provide sandboxing. It's meaningless to expect apps to police themselves.
If you want sandboxing in Linux, run the app under a separate account. It's trivial. I'm not sure whether privilege separation can be fully supported in Windows. They haven't got it right yet, that's for sure, and they've been trying for years.
stasis88Jan 6, 2011
What kind of security architect have you been talking to...? If Flash and Acrobat were sandboxed like they should have been from the start you wouldn't hear about any Adobe bugs. How is it meaningless for an app to police itself when exploits in said app are such a widely used infection mechanism? And dont just say linux this, linux that... Linux is not a target, mostly anyone running linux is not going to be fooled by malware anyway...Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
SayworddJan 5, 2011
Even hackers inform Microsoft of bugs and flaws and they take their time to issue patches. But it is surprising to see they took their time when a Google researcher told them.
jurybenJan 5, 2011
i love 0days
Closed AccountJan 6, 2011
The “Pepsi Challenge”
Michal Zalewski, who says he gave Microsoft more than six months of warning before going public with the flaw. That hasn't stopped Microsoft from sharply disagreeing, however, with the company arguing that Zalewski has now put thousands of IE users at risk.
neodreamerJan 6, 2011
I have no sympathy for the increased security risk of IE users. They deserve it.
psypher1Jan 7, 2011
AMEN!
ParentingCoachLisaJan 6, 2011
I used Google chrome and Firefox.
mehmaaniJan 6, 2011
Until Microsoft changes the whole OS, again, IE will continue to suck.
bubblerJan 6, 2011
Hey Microsoft - don't blame the researcher. Just fix the hole and stop releasing bad software.
psypher1Jan 7, 2011
To those in charge of Internet Explorer.....
f**k YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Every web designer knows and feels what I'm talking about, It always IE that ends up being the odd browser out, and on purpose!!! They just can't bring themselves to working along with everyone else (Chrome, Firefox and ect), and its always IE that you have to add extra code in for to f**king make it work right
DIE ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
luciferactualJan 7, 2011
Google: "you have a bug buddy". Microsoft: "Shut up! You're ugly!".
Developers! developers! developers! ;)