Yet another reason to switch to Firefox

Microsoft is looking into reports this week of a serious buffer
overflow vulnerability in its Internet Explorer Web browser, but has
not yet seen malicious code that exploits the reported flaw.

http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,97258,00.html?nlid=PM

 

Although I do use FireFox, I also use IE and XP with SP 2 where this seems
to not be a problem.

Duane

 

There are some inherent reasons but the primary reason crackers attack
IE is that it has the largest number of users.

At some point, it may become "worth it" to attack Firefox.

And at that point the "open source" may become a sword in the hand of
the crackers as well as a method of promoting collegial improvements
and fixes.

(I wonder how come AOL promotes MSIE when they own Netscape? (Much of
the Mozilla code comes from Netscape, of course.)

 

I heard something here recently that the guy who developed Mozilla wanted
something to take out Netscape. He wanted something Godzilla like to do it
so he named it Mozilla.

Duane