#25686 - 01/14/10 05:59 PM
Anyone Still Using Microsoft IE?
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It is the most insecure browser available. SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft says a security flaw in its Internet Explorer browser played a role in the recent computer attacks against Google and at least 20 other companies.
In a Thursday alert confirming the weakness, Microsoft said the security hole can be closed by setting browser's Internet security zone to "high." The world's largest software maker may also issue an update to fix the problem.
Microsoft pinpointed the trouble spot after Google announced earlier this week that hackers in China had pried into the e-mail accounts of human rights activists opposing the Chinese government's policies.
The attack outraged Google. It plans to leave China unless the government backs off rules requiring Google's Chinese search engine to censor some results.
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#26042 - 01/22/10 11:13 PM
Re: Anyone Still Using Microsoft IE?
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I just created a website and I've come to discover that elements that look good in all other major browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome), often suck in IE. Damn MS.
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#26044 - 01/22/10 11:26 PM
Re: Anyone Still Using Microsoft IE?
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Same thing happened to me not long ago.
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#26045 - 01/23/10 06:03 AM
Re: Anyone Still Using Microsoft IE?
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My blog, built around a Wordpress template the style sheet of which I have extensively modified renders a bit different in IE than in FF.
MS refuses to use the same standards adopted by the other browser providers.
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#26047 - 01/23/10 09:28 AM
Re: Anyone Still Using Microsoft IE?
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MS refuses to use the same standards adopted by the other browser providers. Maybe they're concerned incorporation of other standards may result in extensive brower and/or OS crashes. *written after rebooting, again, with XP and IE*
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#26048 - 01/23/10 10:38 AM
Re: Anyone Still Using Microsoft IE?
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Do you use a PC cleaner program, like CCleaner? If not give it a try to safely clean a whole bunch of useless crap from your machine. It even will search for problems in the "registry", whatever that is. And it's free.
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#26050 - 01/23/10 11:46 AM
Re: Anyone Still Using Microsoft IE?
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yeah. I clean it. It doesn't crash as much as the sterotype. But, when I hear Mac's never crash, I have to wonder why PC's and, by extention MS-DOS can't fix it.
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#26054 - 01/23/10 01:13 PM
Re: Anyone Still Using Microsoft IE?
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Registered: 04/07/09
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Mac's do crash, it's called the spinning wheel of death. Also most Mac fanboys/gals dont' like to mention that the Mac was the first to be hacked at last years security convention ( link). CCLeaner is great, I would also reccomend Microsoft Security Essentials. To the post at hand, I use a combo of IE and Chrome.
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#26065 - 01/23/10 05:18 PM
Re: Anyone Still Using Microsoft IE?
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Good to know. Thanks. I did download CCleaner on a lark. It's pretty good.
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#26069 - 01/23/10 05:39 PM
Re: Anyone Still Using Microsoft IE?
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Pooh-Bah
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I'm curious. When do you experience crashes? At startup or at random times?
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