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The recent disclosure of a security hole in Internet Explorer that enables hackers to steal passwords and credit-card numbers seemed to cross a threshold in Windows' error-marred legacy.But Microsoft could do everyone a favor, from the IT and security communities to the end user like you and me, by simply dumping the albatross of IE and focusing on bucking up Windows security elsewhere.
[seattletimes.nwsource.com...]
In the past, "you could rely on some level of user education," said David Endler, a researcher at TippingPoint, an Austin, Texas, security company. "But how do you tell someone not to log in and not to visit the sites they normally visit on a daily basis?"
[story.news.yahoo.com...]
ZDnet:
Perhaps no issue is drawing as much attention and engendering as many heated debates these days as the question of whether enterprises should abandon Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and seek more secure alternatives such as The Mozilla Foundation's Mozilla or Opera Software ASA's Opera. In a throwback to the days of the original "browser wars," during the 1990s, supporters on both sides of the question are lighting up message boards, mailing lists and online forums with arguments smacking of religious fervor.
That was a classic flame-bait initial posting if I ever saw one!
:-) LOL
