German government warns against using MS Explorer

Now this must be the news of 2010

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service Packs,
IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems. Either
M$ is now threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is completely
rubbish. Either way we should start taking instructions from the German
government if this article is anything to go by.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm

Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?

Now this must be the news of 2010


and 2011....and 2012....

IE problems are almost weekly. There's no news
there. People want convenience. They want
entertainment. They want to check their gmail,
edit their Facebook, watch silly videos, and shop
online. They don't want to learn new tools. So they
use IE and enable script.

The real surprise is that so many people
in high tech places -- people who should know
better -- are using IE and have script enabled.

What hope is there for the mainstream if the
people in the know are so lazy?

John Hacker Jr wrote:

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service Packs,
IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.

"So far, Microsoft "has not seen widespread customer impact, rather
only targeted and limited attacks exploiting Internet Explorer 6""
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8460819.stm

Someone is still running IE 6?

Firefox and Mac OSs have just as many security vulnerabilities and
patches as IE and Windows.

Tony
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After furious head scratching, Tony Toews [MVP] asked:

| John Hacker Jr wrote:
|
|| After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service
|| Packs, IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.
|
| "So far, Microsoft "has not seen widespread customer impact, rather
| only targeted and limited attacks exploiting Internet Explorer 6""
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8460819.stm
|
| Someone is still running IE 6?
|
| Firefox and Mac OSs have just as many security vulnerabilities and
| patches as IE and Windows.
|
| Tony

Someone is still running IE 6?
I RUN IE 6 on Windows 98
And I not the ONLY ONE!


"Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote in message
...
John Hacker Jr wrote:

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service Packs,
IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.

"So far, Microsoft "has not seen widespread customer impact, rather
only targeted and limited attacks exploiting Internet Explorer 6""
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8460819.stm

Someone is still running IE 6?

Firefox and Mac OSs have just as many security vulnerabilities and
patches as IE and Windows.

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/

Are you talking about this Security Release from Microsoft which was published a day
before yesterday which
addresses this issue.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...ry/979352.mspx



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Peter

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"John Hacker" wrote in message
...
Now this must be the news of 2010

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service Packs, IE is
still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems. Either M$ is now
threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is completely rubbish. Either way
we should start taking instructions from the German government if this article is
anything to go by.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm

Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?

From: "Hot-text"

| Someone is still running IE 6?
| I RUN IE 6 on Windows 98
| And I not the ONLY ONE!

IE6 SP2 on XP SP3 and loving it.


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

"John Hacker" skrev i meddelelsen
...
Now this must be the news of 2010

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service Packs, IE
is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems. Either M$ is
now threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is completely rubbish.
Either way we should start taking instructions from the German government
if this article is anything to go by.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm

Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?

The reason of what look likes to you of many more virus
infections in IE browsers are surely a result of the very profound
inegualities in market share. This inegualities is perhaps as profound
as around 1 to 99 or till something around 5 to 99.
That said; you're right on another point. Windows users has been
overloaded with problems araising from the fact that too many new
programs has been sent out having problems, even all formers never
gets fully unbuged. Even far from unbuged. The company apparently
needs money and/or lacks qualified programmers.
And my windows 7 64bit is just as slow as Vista was. In fact, windows 7
is a disguised Vista.
/senn

inegualities? What?

"senn" wrote:


"John Hacker" skrev i meddelelsen
...
Now this must be the news of 2010

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service Packs, IE
is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems. Either M$ is
now threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is completely rubbish.
Either way we should start taking instructions from the German government
if this article is anything to go by.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm

Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?

The reason of what look likes to you of many more virus
infections in IE browsers are surely a result of the very profound
inegualities in market share. This inegualities is perhaps as profound
as around 1 to 99 or till something around 5 to 99.
That said; you're right on another point. Windows users has been
overloaded with problems araising from the fact that too many new
programs has been sent out having problems, even all formers never
gets fully unbuged. Even far from unbuged. The company apparently
needs money and/or lacks qualified programmers.
And my windows 7 64bit is just as slow as Vista was. In fact, windows 7
is a disguised Vista.
/senn

.

In ,
sgopus typed:
inegualities? What?

"senn" wrote:

Good grief Snoopy! You can't figure that out?



"John Hacker" skrev i meddelelsen
...
Now this must be the news of 2010

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service
Packs, IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's
systems. Either M$ is now threatened by Googles rise to prominence
or IE is completely rubbish. Either way we should start taking
instructions from the German government if this article is anything
to go by.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm

Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?

The reason of what look likes to you of many more virus
infections in IE browsers are surely a result of the very profound
inegualities in market share. This inegualities is perhaps as
profound as around 1 to 99 or till something around 5 to 99.
That said; you're right on another point. Windows users has been
overloaded with problems araising from the fact that too many new
programs has been sent out having problems, even all formers never
gets fully unbuged. Even far from unbuged. The company apparently
needs money and/or lacks qualified programmers.
And my windows 7 64bit is just as slow as Vista was. In fact,
windows 7 is a disguised Vista.
/senn

.