Windows Explorer - Internet explorer

Is Windows Explorer in xp pro safe to browse with and does it share security
settings with IE6

 

No and No

 

I would *not* allow W Explorer access online. Period. In theory; any
program opened with Explorer could have free Internet access regardless
of security settings, and possibly, any firewall settings you are using.
There would be no reason to not have any on-line activity default to
IE.

 

Try this to prove that they're pretty much one and the same program:

Click Start, Programs, Accessories, and right-click "Windows Explorer" icon.
Select "Copy". Now, right-click a blank spot on the desktop and select
"Paste". Now right-click the copy on the desktop, and select "Properties"
After "explorer.exe", add the following command (Include the leading space):

/n /e /select,http://www.google.com

Now it should look something like:
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n /e /select,http://www.google.com
Clicl "Apply", "OK"

Notice that the icon on the desktop is still the Windows Explorer icon.
Now double-click it.......

Hmmmmmm, looks like Internet Explorer, acts like Internet Explorer, click
Help, About, and it SAYS Internet Explorer.......
Windows Explorer must be Internet Explorer too. Now you know why MS lost
the anti-trust suit.

 

<VBG>

 

I was walking down the street, minding my own business, when on Wed,

Did they or didn't they really "lose" anything? Most certainly they
didn't. In the end, they paid what amounts to chump change for MS and
were required to install in their update an app to remove components
of Windows if someone wants to. How many people have done so, or are
even aware of it? Nope, MS is going along, business as usual and I
don't see that they'll change anytime soon. Times *do* change,
however, and who knows where they'll be like in 10 years. I recall 10
years ago a company called CompuServe was a major player and a start
up called AOL was on the horizon. Now AOL is in major decline, so much
so that Time-Warner removed them from their name and AOL has basically
abandoned the broadband market. In 10 years, MS could be the
Studebaker of the computer world and become extinct like the Commodore
and the Amiga OSs.


Dr Harvie Wahl-Banghor

 

Well, I'm not going to argue the point too hard and long, just now,
Unk. My beef is basically with firewall permissions and WE as opposed to
IE.
Maybe I've missed the boat, here, as far as WE becoming... behaving
as....
suddenly being IE. All I know is that I've had to clean up a lot of crap
after another user on this computer; because of dumb wanderings in MSN
games and chat; as well as a couple of trojans that loaded *as* WE that
had automatic access permission, and bypassed *both* IE set security and
firewall limitations.

 

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=537951

By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor

05 July 2004

... following a stark security warning from a senior panel of internet
experts who say it opens the door to online criminals.

They are urging all users of Internet Explorer (IE) to stop using the
browser because they say it is vulnerable to hackers and credit card
fraudsters.

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If you haven't done so; don't wait until you become a victim:

http://www.mozilla.org/download.html
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
http://www.opera.com/

 

Good link, since when do you have to pay for stuff like that, how are people
supposed to believe it if you have to pay for advice which should be given
out for free

 

The link is there to validate the story as a citation source. However, you
can google for other free links, i.e. keywords "IE Advisory News", etc.

Nevertheless, the facts remain the same: IE must never be used to browse
the Internet.

Thus:

 

For Inovation's sake, let's hope so...

 

Yeah, Tech, then with someone else being #1, you'll have to find someone
else to take potshots at.

 

I keep thinking standard desktop pcs will get really small but of course
we all like to add new drives and such and want the bays. Then I'm
thinking that hmmm, USB/firewire and such yeah, pcs can get small but
who the heck wants an octopus of wires/devices. Heck, just a standard
external modem and router with their wires is bad enough.

 

Wired magazine had a cool article on the future "wearable computer". With
nanotechnology evolving now, in a few years peripheral connectivity won't
be an issue at all.

 

Show where I've taken *ANY* potshots at anyone.

 

Your an idiot, any program can be hacked, easily by people who know how,
even antivirus/firewall which is suposed to protect you, has mozilla etc
been tested like IE, obviously not cos we dont hear about them and their
security issues, I supposed you will say they have now. proof?

 

Not half the idiot who insists on using a browser that's been hacked like
no other browser has.

The proof is in the pudding:
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By Loring Wirbel, EE Times

The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness
Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons
using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.

The Microsoft browser, the government warned, cannot protect against
vulnerabilities in its Internet Information Services (IIS) 5 server
programs, which a team of hackers allegedly based in Russia has exploited
with a Java script that is appended to Web sites.

The particular virus initiated this week inserts Java script into certain
Web sites. When users visit those sites, it initiates pop-up ads on home
and office computers, and allows keystroke analysis of user information.
The target is believed to be credit card numbers. CERT estimated that as
many as tens of thousands of Web sites may be affected.

CERT said vulnerabilities in IIS and IE could include MIME-type
determination, the DHTML object model, the IE domain/zone security model
and ActiveX scripts. Alternative browsers such as Mozilla or Netscape may
not protect users, the agency warned, if those browsers invoke ActiveX
control or HTML rendering engines.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&e=3&u=/cmp/20040702/tc_cmp/22103407

 

Of course, Mozilla or Netscape may not be the absolute solution to certain
attacks, but they are far less vulnerable than IE in most (important)
respects and will offer a degree of security that IE simply cannot muster.

 

Alternative browsers such as Mozilla or Netscape may

that's the bit i like

 

So then tech have your opinions changed after today's security release
does that not fix the exploit