I agree. And we would still see a drastic fall in spam/exploits/malware The FF team does a better job of patching for stuff then MFST does. Im not saying they are perfect by any means, just better. The add-ons for FF that make life sooooo much better, like NoScript, Flash Block, Ad-Block and AdBlockFilterGSet make FF pretty tight. The primary issue with OE/OL/IE is that for the longest time they automatically ran VBScript embedded in email. Now the major issues are known holes that are months old and end users.
Josh Luthman wrote: > In reality if 75% of the world used Firefox those explots would be > targeting Firefox :) > > On 6/23/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> Maybe if people did not use Outbreak Express and Internet Exploiter it would >> not >> be such a problem. >> >> Charles Wyble wrote: >>> Ah. I've been seeing a lot of those. I knew they were malware or some >>> other nonsense. >>> >>> Thanks for sharing. >>> >>> Bleh.... e-mail is going to die off soon, or usage models of it will >>> switch to white list only. It's getting to be ridiculous. >>> >>> David Hulsebus wrote: >>>> FYI >>>> >>>> >From SANS Newsbytes 6-2-09 >>>> >>>> --Spam Spreading ZBot Masquerades as Outlook Update >>>> (June 22, 2009) >>>> Spam masquerading as a Microsoft Outlook security and stability update >>>> actually infects computers with ZBot, a Trojan horse program that >>>> steals sensitive information. The malware contains a list of >>>> financial institution and social networking sites; if users visit any >>>> of these sites on infected machines, the malware steals login and >>>> credit card information and sends it back to a server controlled by >>>> the attacker. Earlier variants of ZBot infected computers through >>>> drive-by downloads. >>>> http://www.scmagazineus.com/Fake-Microsoft-critical-update-spam-propagating-trojan/article/138823/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >>>> >>>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>>> >>>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
