CERT recommends anything but IE

[USALUG]

CERT recommends anything but IE
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...itch_explorer/

US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed.

A statement on the CERT site said: "There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites." CERT otherwise recommends users to set security settings to high and disable JavaScript

Malicious code, dubbed variously as "Scob" or "Download.Ject", originally posted last week on a Russian website, could be downloaded secretly onto websites using Microsoft's Internet Information Server 5.0. The code could then be used to log keystrokes made by visitors to the site - so long as they used Internet Explorer as their browser. Information, including passwords, was then to be emailed to the criminals behind the atack.

read more at the above link.......

Personally, I recommend mozilla.

[wenwilder]

Seems more people are agreeing with you USALUG. In the stats for my site IE is still mosted used, but Mozilla has started ranking second. Beating out Netscape.

I've never tried Mozilla, but I was wondering why YOU would recommend it? I don't always trust the recommendations of larger institutes, where money may have been a motivation. But... I do trust input from members.

[mushroom]

Linux users have been using Mozilla for years give it try.

http://www.mozilla.org/

[mikmik]

Hey wen :O)
I started to use Firebird, now Firefox (Mozilla!) for viewing my webpages in, because mozilla browsers are actually the same as netscape, just different 'skins' ie. the guts are exactly the same.

I like it because there are TONS of add-ons for everything imagineable, you can do much with Mozilla that IE can't (althought I have to give myIE2 a try, both can be found here at snapfiles)
Through the use of these extensions at the Mozilla site: http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/.

Check out the developer tools, others I really like are side panel add-ons for language translations and dictionaries and note taking etc, and it now has an 'IE simulater' that can be used for seeing pages as ie does, or on sites that don't rener in Internet explorer.

I will send you a letter in the snail mail with a list, if you watch for it next week.

PS. It also doesn't lose the text in input boxes when you accidently load a new page into the browser window. I am dicovering that Firefox is a powere surfers dream, I mean it! The tab browsing and bookmark managers are sweet, like chocolate covered cherries :O))))))))