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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Give Up on IE
Readers of Give Up will notice that I enabled Google ads. I did this for a good reason, I don't really expect to generate any revenue, but I am trying to get people to use Firefox. I've noticed from the usage stats that over 50% of the visitors to my site are using IE. I haven't gone as crazy as to install explorerdestroyer as it seems too obtrusive to me. But I was thinking about it when I saw so many people are using that worthless piece of crap browser.
Block unrequested popups automatically, block spyware automatically, use extensions like noscript to kill annoying and dangerous javascripts and Bugmenot to bypass obnoxious registration requirements. And if you still need to use IE for some sites? There is always the IE tab extension. Seriously, Firefox is the bomb people. It's faster, it's customizable, it's open source, it's safer, it's better! Click the button, download Firefox, you won't regret it. I won't be happy until I start seeing requests from less than 50% IE. You can do it! |
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Some of us read blogs at work, where, as we are not administrators, we can't download firefox and HAVE to live with IE which really IS a piece of crap... but What. Can. We. Do??? We (this is the royal we) have talked to our administrators and they have said "Oh, yes, I'll get right on that" but they have not. We have even snuck onto our own computer under our boss's password -- but still haven't managed it...
10:01 AM, July 20, 2006
We finally convinced our boss to let us put it on all the computers when we convinced him it would keep the machines safe from adware as shown by this study.
The results of this part of the UW study bear serious reflection by CSOs and CISOs. Of the 90,000 URLs crawled with Internet Explorer, 1,734 (2 percent) downloaded spyware when the user clicked the "yes" button—and 129 downloaded spyware even if the user clicked "no." These webpages downloaded, and in many cases installed, spyware by taking advantage of bugs in Internet Explorer itself.
By contrast, Firefox downloaded just 36 infected files when the user clicked "yes" in response to every security dialogue—and it downloaded no files at all when the user clicked "no." According to the researchers, what caused Firefox to download the files was an applet written in Java. Running inside the Java "sandbox," the applet requires the user's explicit permission to download and install the hostile programs. So it looks like the Java security model actually works—at least, it did for the UW test. Unfortunately, if you can convince a user to click the "yes" button, the bad applications can still be installed.
Pretty convincing, IE is buggy and dangerous, dumping it for safety reasons is one of the best justifications.
10:42 AM, July 20, 2006
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