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Asestorian
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Posted - 2005.05.26 18:50:00 -
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And the most blatent thing here was: It exploits a known vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).
Bet you didn't see that one coming.
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Dust Puppy
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Posted - 2005.05.26 19:02:00 -
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rofl, good think I don't use IE 
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Joshua Foiritain
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Posted - 2005.05.26 19:06:00 -
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*hugs firefox*
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IZON
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Posted - 2005.05.26 19:30:00 -
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 Quote:
"It is the equivalent of someone coming into your home, locking your valuables in a safe and refusing to give you the combination."
Funny eh, Longhorn will be able to do something disturbingly similar. 
"...master! there's a guy in the south village called IZON, he is a Ninja!" |
MAcheTT3
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Posted - 2005.05.26 20:02:00 -
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Edited by: MAcheTT3 on 26/05/2005 20:03:07
Originally by: news.bbc.co.uk
The program, Trojan.Pgpcoder, installs itself on a vulnerable computer after users visit certain websites.
Damnit! It's like they don't want me to look at p0rn... 
LOL... So 'p0rn' is a banned word... How odd...
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MooKids
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Posted - 2005.05.26 20:58:00 -
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While a risk to us, the programmer does put himself at a significant risk. There will obviously be a money trail, making it easier to track the file back to him. Not to mention once he gets caught, the punishment for his crime will be much more severe than a simple virus maker.
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Zhuge Liang
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Posted - 2005.05.26 23:03:00 -
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Netscape 8.0 > (Internet Explorer < Firefox)
Sums it up quite nicely imo 
ZhuuÀ gheyÀleeÀyan (Kongming) |
Muthsera
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Posted - 2005.05.27 06:24:00 -
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Ok. Everyone togheter now.
Lets sing the "We hate IE" song.
God damn a more swiss chese looking program I've never seen.
Other than Windows 95 maybe.
All I got to say to Microsoft is. Get a damn grip.
The world most dominating OS makers and you can't make a damn browser work proporly.
I can't even begin to list how many times I've got some nasty spywhare off that bastard.
MS java can die in hell to.
Mosilla firefox ftw.
SoonÖ
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2005.05.27 08:19:00 -
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Firefox isn't any more secure, apparently, just its vulnerabilities aren't as widely explored.
LEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! |
Petite Pierre
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Posted - 2005.05.27 09:02:00 -
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<3 Opera.
version 7.54 = teh pwn.
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Asestorian
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Posted - 2005.05.27 09:50:00 -
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This is true, supposedly opera is the most secure and the best browser there is. Fact that you have to pay for it to remove an advert from the browser itself stops me from using it however.
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Ombey
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Posted - 2005.05.27 14:29:00 -
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Asestorian, that is spot on. I switched to Firefox from Opera and never went back.
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Lyra VX
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Posted - 2005.05.28 01:24:00 -
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Edited by: Lyra VX on 28/05/2005 01:24:19
Firefox does have exploits (find me a piece of software that doesn't) but if you were a virus writer, ask yourself this. Would you write your trojan to exploit an IE hole and infect potentially 85% of web users, or go looking for a lesser known Firefox/Opera vulnerability and infect a significantly lower amount?
IE's dominance is a good thing from the point of view of the minority browser users.
Bad from the web designers POV though ... ******* thing doesn't even conform to CSS standards.
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Dray
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Posted - 2005.05.28 14:28:00 -
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Originally by: IZON
Quote:
"It is the equivalent of someone coming into your home, locking your valuables in a safe and refusing to give you the combination."
Funny eh, Longhorn will be able to do something disturbingly similar.
now that is a good reply 
and like he says disturbingly similar 
I picked up this ace book today everyone rates it as a must buy for the budding military genius, tho ive decided to rename it as "Sun Tzu's art of the bloody obvious" |
Jenjuan
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Posted - 2005.05.28 20:47:00 -
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Originally by: MooKids
While a risk to us, the programmer does put himself at a significant risk. There will obviously be a money trail, making it easier to track the file back to him. Not to mention once he gets caught, the punishment for his crime will be much more severe than a simple virus maker.
These are usually things that are put together by the Russian Mafia and Nigerian thugs, I don't think that they're afraid of U.S. police looking for them as they have NO juristiction over their lands.
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Taz Devlin
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Posted - 2005.05.29 15:21:00 -
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Am I the only one using Avant Browser?
Allways move fast, you never know who's catching up!
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Zenst
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Posted - 2005.05.29 16:22:00 -
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Originally by: Asestorian
Linkage
And the most blatent thing here was: It exploits a known vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).
Bet you didn't see that one coming.
Its the unknown ones that scare me, though TBH you can have the bestest patched up system with tightest settings and antivirus and anti spyware installed. Still dont stop the user clicking yes yes yes with a go away popup box attitude.
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Nikolai Nuvolari
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Posted - 2005.05.31 02:16:00 -
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Originally by: Taz Devlin
Am I the only one using Avant Browser?
Yes.
::strokes Firefox's reddish-orange fur:: Gooood boy, good little browser.
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