Ah, the security vulnerability that was used in the Google attack. It's been around the internet about a million times now, and even governments have started advising people to move away from Internet Explorer. As is usually the case, however, the internet has really blown the vulnerability out of proportion. I'll get right to it: if your machine and/or network has been compromised via this vulnerability, then you most likely had it coming. No sympathy for you.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/microsoft-switch-from-ie-and...
In short: Microsoft tells us, that switching to other Browsers would actually increase the risk.
I do not know, how they can possibly arrive at this conclusion. No other major browser has a zero-day exploit on the rampage, and IE is not really fixed yet. The second line of defence prevents the attack from succeeding in Vista, Win7 with EI8, but the flaw is still there.
I know, that in USA you cannot do anything against Microsoft issuing such moronic statements, here in Austria however, if you say "competition is worse than us", you might have to prove this statement in court. If you cannot prove it, you have to pay damages for tarnishing the competitor's reputation.
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In short: Microsoft tells us, that switching to other Browsers would actually increase the risk.
I do not know, how they can possibly arrive at this conclusion. No other major browser has a zero-day exploit on the rampage, and IE is not really fixed yet. The second line of defence prevents the attack from succeeding in Vista, Win7 with EI8, but the flaw is still there.
I know, that in USA you cannot do anything against Microsoft issuing such moronic statements, here in Austria however, if you say "competition is worse than us", you might have to prove this statement in court. If you cannot prove it, you have to pay damages for tarnishing the competitor's reputation.
yes, because you can trust a website that has an image caption of "Microsoft: IE8 all this bad publicity" to not mis-quote someone. The fact that part of the quote is missing casts doubt over its accuracy.
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2006-01-26
Which simply means users of Windows 2000 must choose a different browser entirely now.