Comments on: Microsoft Plugs 11 Serious Flaws in December Update

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:22:12 +0000

I say mozilla firefox is the most secure and easy to use browsers out there. It is both secure and very easy to use (plus it has very few flaws).

@ issacisback and Sir Henry

Linux needs to get to an out of the box stage like mac or windows, then it will really catch on.

By: Nobody_Holme

Nobody_Holme — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:52:26 +0000

@fak3r

hey, I dl first then scan… i’m just not too stupid in what i dl. *never had a virus* (bar the trojan that didnt execute for over a year in the no-cd exe i had for rome:total war, and that was the ONE time i trusted someone else to get one of those for me… and it walked straight into AVG when it tried to run)

By: isaacisback

isaacisback — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:00:51 +0000

quote: I could not agree more. Let’s linuxize the world!

isaacisback

By: Sir Henry

Sir Henry — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:30:20 +0000

@fak3r:

I could not agree more. Let’s linuxize the world!

By: fak3r

fak3r — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:28:43 +0000

No tool is ever going to be good enough to protect dumb users, IE, FF, Opera, who cares, they’re all taking in info from outside, an overzealous click can bring a user all sorts of pain. Best bet for these folks is Linux - again, it’s too not perfect, but far better for people that dnld first, virus scan later…

By: Sir Henry

Sir Henry — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:28:39 +0000

Yes, I have done that in the past, but my never ending pursuit is in finding a browser that will handle all pages. What I find deplorable is that there are still sites out there that require you to user IE. My current place of employment is one such place and it sickens me.

By: cpj

cpj — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:20:35 +0000

Opera does not open some pages, yes, but for those few times when I cannot open a page and I absolutely must do so, I can use a different browser. Two browsers is not that crazy. Use one for most things and something like IE for one or two websites that you deem to be safe but necessary.

By: Sir Henry

Sir Henry — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:29:48 +0000

@Nobody_Holme:

Didn’t see your last comment for some reason, but, I agree, the OS is only as secure as that which you use on it from an application perspective. I once had MS Office on there, but dropped it from lack of need. I was on Leopard, but just went back to Tiger after getting the nefarious Airport kernel panic oft experienced in the wild, thus back to a limited number of applications and taking a particularly close look at which I install.

By: Sir Henry

Sir Henry — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:08:05 +0000

@Nobody_Holme:

Yeah, I just do not feel comfortable using another browser. Given, FF is a complete memory hog on Ubuntu 7.10, but I feel that there is no other viable alternative browser out there. Opera, sure, but there are so many things that do not inherently work with it that I find there truly is no other viable alternative to FF at the given time. Then again, apart from the memory issues, I do not see why I should try to find an alternative.

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:05:29 +0000

@ Sir Henry

Using FF in OS X will give you all the nice plugins,etc, but also the same bugs and vuln’s the FF linux and Windows version are prone to.
I hope you are not using MS Office on the Apple
Security isn’t just the OS, but also the applications one uses.