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New Internet Explorer Security Hole

After the constant discoveries of holes and Microsoft's refusal to admit there are holes in IE, I ask: Why do people keep using Internet Explorer? I don't get it.

Read for yourself:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04...HNiehole_1.html

Demo of hole:

http://secunia.com/Internet_Explore..._Spoofing_Test/


Yup, anyone can pretty much spoof a file type, let you think its a .pdf .html or whatever when it's actually a .exe and boom you got a nice chance for viruses to get in. GO IE!!

Stop using that crap browser and save me some time wasted on useless tech-support calls!

you wouldnt have a job without those calls :P

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Originally posted by Flec you wouldnt have a job without those calls :P

Actually , it's not my job

Re: New Internet Explorer Security Hole

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Originally posted by loconet After the constant discoveries of holes and Microsoft's refusal to admit there are holes in IE, I ask: Why do people keep using Internet Explorer? I don't get it.

prolly the same reason why they use MSN .. convenience and they dunno better!

Re: Re: New Internet Explorer Security Hole

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Originally posted by dEsidEL prolly the same reason why they use MSN .. convenience and they dunno better!

yup! I think the average user is unaware of the many different types of browsers available out there other than IE.
Either that or just pure laziness

in my case I have come to love IE so much that I find all the other browsers crap. Bill Gate's got me around his finger

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Originally posted by paul d engineer in my case I have come to love IE so much that I find all the other browsers crap. Bill Gate's got me around his finger

what's there to love about IE?!

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Originally posted by paul d engineer in my case I have come to love IE so much that I find all the other browsers crap. Bill Gate's got me around his finger

FIREBIRD!!!

hehe yeah i have that too... although i do prefer mozilla when push comes to shove

Stats on internet clients that visit www.travelninja.com


MS Internet Explorer 93.8 %
Mozilla 2.6 %
Netscape 1.6 %
Firebird 0.7 %
Opera 0.6 %
Safari 0.4 %
Unknown 0.05 %
Konqueror 0.05 %

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Originally posted by drgoodvibe Stats on internet clients that visit www.travelninja.com MS Internet Explorer 93.8 % Mozilla 2.6 % Netscape 1.6 % Firebird 0.7 % Opera 0.6 % Safari 0.4 % Unknown 0.05 % Konqueror 0.05 %

oh yah! you Beh ,,you!! your site breaks in mozilla , firebird, etc can't browse it unless I use IE, go fix it, go go. u and your evil html

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Originally posted by loconet oh yah! you Beh ,,you!! your site breaks in mozilla , firebird, etc can't browse it unless I use IE, go fix it, go go. u and your evil html

haha I know.. its the javascript, doesn't work with Opera either, only reason why i'm still with IE *shrug*

December Summary

IE 86.31%
Netscape 5.30%
Mozilla 3.02%
Opera 2.19%

Details

IE
6.0 85.33%
5.5 5.67%
5.0 4.71%
5.01 2.96%
5.00 0.49%
5.22 0.24%
4.01 0.12%
5.23 0.12%
5.16 0.09%
5.17 0.07%
5.14 0.06%
5.21 0.04%
5.13 0.02%
5.12 0.02%
5.15 0.02%
4.0 0.02%
4.5 0.01%
3.02 0.01%

Netscape
6.0 62.90%
7.1 12.59%
4.0 4.71%
3.01 4.60%
7.02 2.76%
7.0 2.01%
3.0 1.72%
4.5 1.64%
7.01 1.06%
4.79 1.03%
6.001 0.42%
4.7 0.39%
6.2 0.38%
4.75 0.34%
6.2.3 0.30%
6.2.1 0.29%
4.78 0.28%
4.77 0.25%
4.8 0.23%
4.73 0.23%
4.01 0.23%
4.76 0.22%
4.61 0.18%
2.0 0.15%
4.51 0.15%
6.1 0.13%
6.2.2 0.12%
4.04 0.12%
4.72 0.09%
4.6 0.08%
9.13 0.07%
4.06 0.07%
4.08 0.06%
4.05 0.05%
3.04 0.04%

Mozilla
1.5 63.69%
1.4 13.41%
1.6 8.59%
1.0.2 3.52%
1.3.1 2.62%
1.3 1.88%
1.2.1 1.71%
1.4.1 1.32%
0.9.4.2 1.02%
1.0.1 0.60%
1.1 0.54%
1.0.0 0.45%
1.2 0.23%
1.7 0.17%
1.0 0.06%
1.5.1 0.04%

Opera
7.11 22.19%
7.23 21.27%
7.21 19.22%
7.20 8.91%
7.22 8.38%
7.10 3.56%
6.05 2.99%
7.03 2.50%
7.02 2.42%
7.01 2.12%
7.0 2.10%
6.01 1.20%
6.0 1.07%
6.04 0.57%
7.50 0.32%
5.12 0.26%
6.06 0.22%
6.03 0.21%
6.02 0.13%
5.1 0.05%


IE ain't going anywhere - yes its full of memory leaks but as long as sites work in IE thats all that matters (for the most part)

hey Del, can you reccomend me a good Log analyzer.. I'm using Weblog Expert among all the online ones, and there just no good!

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Originally posted by Swamper December Summary IE ain't going anywhere - yes its full of memory leaks but as long as sites work in IE thats all that matters (for the most part)

Whoa, you gotta be joking me. It's attitude like that that cripples the progress of technology, in this case the web. As developers, If we continue to bend over for products that break standards and instead ignore those that follow them, we are slowing down progress. Ignoring IE would be stupid, it's here , most people use it and it's staying here for a while, but i think we should educate those other uses on what is happening, stop their ignorance. Example; Imagine all the kick ass advances, appz, and sites we would have now if JavaScript, css, PNGs, etc were supported by all browsers as described by the standards? yah less time would be wasted in making sure it works in all freaking Number of OS's and browers out there, plus it'd make part of my job a lot easier

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Originally posted by drgoodvibe hey Del, can you reccomend me a good Log analyzer.. I'm using Weblog Expert among all the online ones, and there just no good!

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

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Originally posted by loconet http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

yea i use that i'm just wondering how accurate it is..

I use Awstats, Webalizer, Analog, and Web Log experts.. and they all give me different stats.

I use Urchin

Webtrends used to free back in the day and that one was amazing, if you get a chance, and can find the standalone PC version you can have it analyze your logs offsite and it compiles nice stats too.

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