, The Register 2004-06-28
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.
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CERT recommends anything but IE
2004-06-28
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
CERT recommends anything but IE
2004-06-29
Brian McMahon <brian.mcmahon (at) cabrillo (dot) edu [email concealed]>
Brian McMahon <brian.mcmahon (at) cabrillo (dot) edu [email concealed]>
It's also a bit overblown, IMNSHO. The paragraph in question says:
"Use a different web browser
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. Such a decision may, however, reduce the functionality of sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML, VBScript, and ActiveX. Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML). It is possible for a different browser on a Windows system to invoke IE to handle MHTML protocol URLs."
People are jumping on the "It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser" statement. It hardly comes across to me as anything that should be used as an anti-IE chant. Nevertheless, that's the source of the statement.
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