What is Digg?5 Comments
- aussienemesis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1clandestine41
Sandi has said on her blog:
"We have to break this mindset of "simply change to Trillian" or "use Firefox" when facing up to the task of how do we have protect our users from crap like winfixer.
Did you know that the bad guys are moving away from IE specific exploits and using other things such as banner ads, and flash exploits, and quicktime exploits, and java exploits, all of which are not IE dependent. So, where does this leave Firefox users who have moved to that browser because it is "safer".
Check out the unpatched Firefox stats to left of screen (at http://msmvps.com/spywaresucks) - every single one of those 36.5% of FF 1.x users is at grave risk because they are unpatched - and do you know *why* they are unpatched? Because Zealots have told them to "switch to Firefox" without *also* saying "make sure you keep patching because you are still at risk - sure, its a *different* risk, but you're still at risk.
Opera users are even worse - the unpatched status of Opera users is staggering." - MenthiX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1First Myspace, now Microsoft :(.
- ShadowPuterDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1clandestine41, how exactly is using Firefox supposed to prevent Malware ads from being displayed in MSN Messenger and Live Messenger? Firefox is not the "Cure All". FF has it's own set of vulnerabilities. Using a different browser does nothing for an individuals surfing habits. If they have bad surfing habits using IE then they have bad surfing habits using {insert alternate browser name here}.
- BrianHMadsen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1spyware is hard enough to keep track off without messenger getting used to distribute it. Good job on Sandi and Patchou's side for getting this out in the open!
- clandestine41, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Avoid Internet Explorer, use Firefox with 'No Script' ad-on.
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