Browser Wars, take two

various FR links | 12-22-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

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 Mozilla Deal with ISP Expands Firefox Distribution

 

 Prosecutors seek 37-month term in Internet worm case

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 Destructive OS X malware spies on Apple users

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 Freeper help: Shareware Popup blockers?

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Security company finds SP2 memory hole

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 Christians on PalTalk Chat Service Tracked by Radical Islamic Web Site(Coptic Murder connection?)

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Adware-infected PCs net slimeware firms $3 a pop -- guesstimates the illicit advertising market underpinned by adware infection of home and business PCs could be worth up to $1.6bn a year.

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A rising star even Microsoft can't snuff out

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 Microsoft To Release 13 Patches Next Week -- I used to have 8-15 instances of spyware a day before switching to Firefox. The number immediately went to zero. The other day, I opened up IE because a video file I wanted to hear wouldn't play on Firefox. I was on less than 5 minutes. Took that long to get zapped with 14 cases of malware, along with a Trojan called 17.H which I'm still trying to get rid of--and that's with daily updates and scans of my AV and Adaware/Spybot S & D, and my firewall (Outpost) running constantly as well.  Firefox rocks.

 

 Three new worms

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 Deleting Spam Costs Billions, Study Finds -- Frankly, at this point spam has gone from being an annoyance to literally becoming a purposeful attack on computer networks and should be treated as such.  The government should be going after spammers the same way they go after virus writers.

-- Yesterday I put a trial Barracuda Spam Firewall between my Symantec SGS 5420 and Exchange server.  From all appearances the spam hits on the server immediately dropped and the torrent of "No Such Account" emails to my Bad Mail Folder stemmed to a trickle. --

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 Why Does Windows Still Suck? Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and worms?...

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 Harold Evans talks about his new book, They Made America -- and why Bill Gates isn't in it

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Non-Microsoft Browsers Have Spoofing Flaw

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Experts predict Firefox spyware will show up this year

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Firefox makes Internet Explorer look like kids stuff.

Anyway, re: the weather link, Firefox has a nice plugin that puts the weather forcast in the corner of your browser in the status bar - very cool and out of the way.

Load it up - you will dig it (and have no need for a weather tab!)

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New Browser Exploit Found (but not on IE)

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 Microsoft Buying Anti-Virus Software Maker

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 Microsoft Fesses Up To 19 Vulnerabilities, MSBlast-Level Worm Likely

 

 New Phising attacks affects all browsers except IE

 

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Microsoft probes anti-spyware Trojan

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Let me drop out of Lurk & Link mode -- my personal opinion?

These writers and propagators of garbage code need to be hit so heavily they don't know what whacked them-- triple fines, jail time, and public whipping in the town square.

No, I'm not kidding.

It's not funny anymore-- they are wrecking the web experience for everybody- not to mention the actual damage some of this junk does to data and equipment.

Fine 'em, lock 'em up, and frog march 'em to the town square where they live.

Strip 'em, whip 'em, and chain them to the whipping post for a week with a pair of manicure scissors so they can trim the grass one blade at a time.

Make 'em wear a shirt with "I was a CyberVandal" on it.

I am so deadly serious about this. These vermin are ruining the web for everybody besides them-- it is time to stop it, dead.

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Bump to that. Well put.