On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Michael D Faulkner <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone installed these in AD?
We use the FrontMotion MSI packages to deploy the Firefox install via Group Policy. > The GPO’s seem very limited. Never really used them. What are you looking to do? > Firefox, from what I’ve read, is much more vulnerability > prone than IE. I've never really seen a fair analysis. I've seen lots of FUD from both sides. One thing I've seen often is a comparison counts of advisories or updates, which is bogus. Microsoft releases updates once a month unless their stock price is at stake; Firefox releases updates as soon as the vulnerability is fixed. Microsoft releases one advisory per update; Firefox releases an advisory for each vulnerability. Microsoft does not consider the design of ActiveX to be a security vulnerability, and thus doesn't "fix" it; I and many others do. I do see regular security updates for both MSIE and Firefox, so between the two, you have to stay on top of updates either way. > Isn’t it a pain to have to reinstall a new MSI every time these vendors > come out with a new one? It's not a pain for us. We just drop the new one into Active Directory. It gets installed automatically at next boot. I wish everything was so easy. > Does Firefox sit there with vulnerabilities in the meantime while > they are updating their install? This can be an issue. FrontMotion, in particular, has occasionally lagged behind by a week or so. If it bothers you enough, you can build your own MSI from Firefox sources. > Perhaps this should be submitted to the AD forum as well. This isn't really an AD issue; it's more of a Firefox issue. You might try the Firefox web forums; there might be more info there. Or at least, more people who have done what you're trying to do. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
