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Originally posted by HAL9000
Blah blah blah... I have yet to receive a spyware browser hijack or virus thru IE... mebbe some people just need to learn safer internet habits.
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Hal, the article points to issues that have been on the core of Internet security and standards for years and years now, it doesnt matter what you call as "safer habits", by using IE one is severely making the computer vulnerable to an exploit. Sometimes a person might have no choice when accidentally coming upon a site that was coded with ulterior motives. In any event, consider that you not getting a vulnerability with IE may have been an act of coincidence than of design. We all know that pretty much every virus out there is designed with the assumption of Outlook Express; and yet I use it, it isnt my security morals that have kept the virus writers out of my system; I would still call it sheer coincidence and dumb luck - not bravado of my internet habits. Mozilla is generically a safer browsing engine; in fact any browser that isn't so wound up with the OS or isnt fueled by ActiveX for its eye-candy would be a better alternative.