Why so much hate? Haters are going to hate. I wouldn't bother, it would be like that cartoon about someone being wrong on the internet... On Feb 15, 2014 8:00 AM, "Greg Keogh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks, one of our customers has an IT admin guy who is a Linux fan and > runs a farm of Linux servers. He has the typical cultural anti-Microsoft > bias that I'm sure we encounter now and then. Not normally a problem, but > he's forwarding around scary emails warning of vulnerabilities in IE and > Silverlight which could put our deployment at risk. > > I became suspicious when yesterday he said something like "because IE is > 'closer' to the operating system than other browsers, a flaw in IE makes > Windows more vulnerable". This seems preposterous to me, and it's vague, > but it pleases me to imagine that the User/Kernel mode boundaries between > IE and Windows are no different than any other normal application. > > Anyway, in his email he links to these pages: > > > http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/product_id-19887/Microsoft-Silverlight.html > http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8857906/669819191/656856/12/ > > I don't see anything particularly scary in these. It looks like a > Silverlight app would have to be specifically crafted to be a threat (and > I'm not intending to do that!). The other stuff about IE is just the usual > stuff you see on quiet news days. > > Any comments anyone to help us slap this Linux guy down? > > *Greg K* >
