Slate-MSN: Mozilla Trumps IE

garym — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 00:33:23 -0400

And while the downloads of "mozilla":http://mozilla.org (and firefox) go through the roof, "Slate MSN":http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152&n unfolds even more of the story ...

bq. CNET reporter Robert Lemos zeroed in on why the attack was so scary. "This time," he wrote, "the flaws affect every user of Internet Explorer." That's about 95 percent of all Net users. No matter how well they had protected themselves against viruses, spyware, and everything else in the past, they were still vulnerable to yet another flaw in Microsoft's browser.

The author's net advice: A switch to "Mozilla Firebird":http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/ isn't nearly as painful as you'd think as the latest versions of Firebird make it easy to import your old MSIE profile and get back into the flow of just getting things done -- which, as "WIRED reports(Mozilla Feeds on Rival's Woes)":http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,64065,00.html means doing real work instead of spending your time fretting over mafia virus attacks ...

bq. if you've got time to make the switch, the peace of mind is worth it. Mozilla also makes a free e-mail program called Thunderbird and a calendar tool called Sunbird, if you want to avoid using Outlook and Outlook Express, two other virus carriers. They're nowhere near as feature-packed as Outlook, but the e-mail client includes a spam filter that works pretty well

Agreed..

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:29:30 -0400

Use Opera or Mozilla(or mozilla light firefox)That is what I advise as well.Hard to believe its been almost ten years for IE,and still full of bugs.Funny...script kiddies being able to find the flaw and *programmers* being paid lots unaware of it.( I use the term script kiddies in an endearing way,a lot of them are young and do amazing things with their talents..imagine if they used it in a constructive way..they would be millionaires)

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Slate-MSN: Mozilla Trumps IE

Agreed..