Microsoft sees 'huge increase' in IE attacks

InfoWorld ^ | 15 Dec 2008 | Gregg Keizer

[js1138]

Other researchers confirmed that attacks were increasingly coming from compromised Web sites.

I've seen a bunch of them.

[1L]

I don’t use FF anymore and I haven’t used IE in many years. I use Google Chrome.

[Red Badger]

XP and Firefox get along swell.

Have you tried to get any updates from MS?

If you log on with Firefox, it denies you access...........

[exist]

I’m a Firefox guy.

[Prole]

Well, I was stupid and tried to save some money by purchasing a Sony Vaio with Vista instead of the I-Mac it's modeled after.

Now that I am stuck with Vista, I cannot use Firefox because it always crashes a la Vista's incompatiblity.

Next purchase will be a Mac, I promise!

:-)

[Red Badger]

It would be cheaper to downgrade to XP...............

[Prole]

I heard that too, but some of the folks I call tell me that the system cannot be downgraded.

[Red Badger]

Hogwash............

[DaGman]

Chrome is too plain because it’s too new. I’m completely spoiled using my favorite Firefox extensions and plugins. Chrome is fast and stable, but that’s all I can really say about it.

[js1138]

Not hogwash. Many PC builders have contracts with Microsoft that prevent them from offering drivers for XP.

Also going unnoticed is that printer manufacturers have pulled Windows 98 drivers from their support sites. Not just for new models, but for their older models.

[Bigh4u2]

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work with Windows 2000, which I’m running.

[Red Badger]

Not hogwash. Many PC builders have contracts with Microsoft that prevent them from offering drivers for XP.

That's not the same as "can't" be done............

[DonaldC]

“Also going unnoticed is that printer manufacturers have pulled Windows 98 drivers from their support sites.”

I have noticed that as well. I volunteer at a thrift store from time to time refurbishing stuff for internal use as well as for sell, and the ability to reuse older printers on older hardware is quite hampered by this.

[Bigh4u2]

“That’s not the same as “can’t” be done............”

Yep....

format c:......

Are you sure?

works for me..

[js1138]

There’s always driverguide.com, but they are going to pay for play. Not that I blame them.

[Centurion2000]

Maybe if M$ would stop generating crappy code this problem might go away.

PROPER software development starts with validating all inputs and decent management of memory allocation.

[Bigh4u2]

Or you can just run through a bunch of ads....then download for free.

[Red Badger]

Unless there is some hardware mod that prevents it from working with anything except vista, but that would prevent it from using linux or any other OS, also.....

[js1138]

Interesting article in the latest CPU magazine. They say that Microsoft had a browser developed in 1998 with the features and architecture of Google Chrome, but pulled it because they were already being sued by the government for their integrated browser.

The unreleased browser was also called Chrome.

[Sam_Damon]

So rehab the older computers with a flavor of Linux.

There’s flavors out there that work fine with older hardware. MEPIS comes to mind, but hey, they’re all free. Find one that works for you and stick with it.

BTW, on the Mac I prefer Camino for web browsing. Rock solid, basic browser (limited extensibility), stays out of your way, renders d@#n near everything.