I don't think we want to include addons in this as the majority of users don't use any addons at all, or do they?
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:23 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
