Scumware waits to prey upon Internet Explorer bugs |
If you aren’t surfing with you Internet Explorer condom (that’s a joke, people), then now is a better time than ever. winnetmag:
A malicious adware creator is taking advantage of two vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) to surreptitiously install adware products and pop-up ad generators on users’ computers as they browse the Web. The flaws, which let attackers run code on victims’ machines and let malicious code bypass IE’s security zones, were only recently discovered.
I know, I know, switch to another browser, but the numbers still say that despite these issues the highest percentage of people don’t. Why do you think this is?
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I think people are real lazy. They don’t want to download, install, and learn a new browser. They get all freaked because there is no “GO” button on mozilla, (i’ve seen this personally) and they are bookmarks insted of favorites.
Plus webmasters knowing that most surfers use IE, tend to design for IE. When you look at a site in FireFox or Opera, they look all hosed, yet when it’s seen in IE, looks great, so I must be that FireFox and Opera are faulty browsers.
It’s crazy to think how lazy folks are.
Comment by Crush — June 10, 2004 @ 1:41 pm PST
You are onto something there, Crush, thanks for taking time to comment.
Comment by TDavid — June 10, 2004 @ 3:54 pm PST
[…] By now with the accumulation of flaws discovered opening up holes the size of craters on Mars you’d think nobody on earth — including me — would continue using Internet Explorer. But darn it, some websites don’t work without IE (and it’s not necessarily always the webmaster’s fault), so what is today’s netizen to do? Stop visiting? […]
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