Mircosoft security boss: "I use Firefox"

[Jome]

 

Firefox 0wns, IE fall back.. 

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/view.html?pg=3

These days, every Windows computer is a war zone of viruses, Trojans, spyware, and other malicious code trying to exploit security holes in Internet Explorer. One of the scariest of all, Download.Ject, discovered in late June, worked to log keystrokes (usernames, passwords, PINs). All this despite Bill Gates' 2002 declaration that security is his top priority. We asked Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft's security program manager, if Redmond is fighting a war it can't win.

WIRED: It's been more than a month since the first news of Download.Ject, and you still haven't issued a real fix for Internet Explorer. How long is it going to take?

TOULOUSE: The first step was to block this specific attack. The malicious software was being delivered from a server in Russia. We worked with law enforcement to get that shut down. And our product teams released an update that blocked the downloads that Ject had hacked. It was not specifically a security update for Internet Explorer. We're still working on that.

Meanwhile, Firefox and Opera look awfully appealing.
Security is really an industry-wide problem. Just this morning I had to install an update to Firefox to block a flaw that would've allowed an attacker to run a program on my system. We're working around the clock to make Internet Explorer safer, and we're making changes with our Windows XP Service Pack 2 to make browsing a lot more secure.

What about removing capabilities from IE to beef up security?
We're always looking at design. There's always that trade-off between functionality and security, and we've taken some steps recently that bear that out. For instance, the address bar of Explorer was allowing a certain type of rendering. People had grown to use that functionality; they liked it. And then we started to see attackers co-opt it to try to get software onto the machine, and we reviewed that feature and made the decision to stop the product from being able to do this.

Seems like you're fighting a losing battle.
It's not a switch that can be flipped. Software written by humans will always contain errors. We're fundamentally changing the way things operate, to help to make software more resistant to attacks. We're two and a half years down a much longer road; it's more of a 10-year timeline.

- Lucas Graves

Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.. 
I think he meant to say that security is a problem for all programs, but he got his message across.. Firefox 0wns IE.

[DirtySouth]

Netscape 7.2 is the best and you know it 

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp



Trust me my brain is bigger 

[Jome]

Umm yeah, it's pretty much the same thing, doh.
Except that Firefox is smaller, faster, and fresher.

[DirtySouth]

Does Firefox have AIM built in ? 


Why you deleting my incredible threads? 

[eS El Duque]

Does Firefox have AIM built in ? 


Why you deleting my incredible threads? 

AIM sucks.  MSN > AIM

[Woodrow]

Trust me my brain is bigger 

Autistic brain bigger, less responsive than normal
http://depts.washington.edu/uweek/archives/2001.12.DEC_06/_article3.html

That explains a lot.


I'm gonna stick with IE. It's not that I don't like firefox, but I'm so used to IE and all it's ctrl and alt shortcuts the change would slow me down a bit. I hear IE 7 is gonna kick ass and take names. Microsoft is ALWAYS gonna win in the end. Take a look at netscape. They came out and dominated. Microsoft got to work and now look whats up. Microsoft OWNS the browser market. I expect the same thing to happen w/ the current gen of new browsers.

[Suga Foot]

I was all about IE, but I was getting tired of pop ups, so my brother showed me firefox, and It's 10x better than IE.  The tabs alone kills IE

[DirtySouth]

Trust me my brain is bigger 

Autistic brain bigger, less responsive than normal
http://depts.washington.edu/uweek/archives/2001.12.DEC_06/_article3.html

That explains a lot.

I'm not autistic homo.

Fuck Washington...USA don't need you just join Canada 

[DirtySouth]

I was all about IE, but I was getting tired of pop ups, so my brother showed me firefox, and It's 10x better than IE.  The tabs alone kills IE

lol I thought you were going tell us some stories of what you did over the weekend 

[ZILLA THA GOODFELLA]

ay how the fuck do I delete Internet Explorer? there's nothing on it in my add/remove section....I use Avant Browser and Mozilla now, but them internet explorer pop ups still be poppin up sometimes and I can't figure out how to get internet explorer off my comp for good.

[Jome]

ay how the fuck do I delete Internet Explorer? there's nothing on it in my add/remove section....I use Avant Browser and Mozilla now, but them internet explorer pop ups still be poppin up sometimes and I can't figure out how to get internet explorer off my comp for good.

Microsoft made IE a part of Windows, and thereby impossible to delete completely..
And they also made Windows Update incompatible with everything else than IE, monopoly hungry bastards..

[white Boy]

firefox is good..

[ZILLA THA GOODFELLA]

Microsoft made IE a part of Windows, and thereby impossible to delete completely..
And they also made Windows Update incompatible with everything else than IE, monopoly hungry bastards..

DAMM !! EFFIN A-HOLES. MONEY TALKS !!!

WHAT U SUGGEST HOMIE? I GOT THAT SEARCH N DESTROY SHIT, IT CHECKS N DELETES ALL THE ERRORS N STUFF, BUT NOT POP-UPS. I DON'T USE I.E AT ALL, BUT THEM POP-UPS ARE STARTING AGAIN OUTTA NOWHERE. I WAS LOOKIN UP POP UP BLOCKERS, BUT THEY SEEM TO WANT MONEY FOR EM. AND I DUNNO HOW IT WOULD WORK WHEN I DONT EVEN USE I.E.

[The Watcher]

firefox blocks popups, or install windows xp sp2 and it adds those features into IE

[Jome]

firefox blocks popups

Yeah, Firefox is great to block pop-ups..
But some spyware/adware shit use external IE pop-ups, to get at them Ads-gone is great..
They block certain and custom ad-servers, and you can make them e.g. close all windows with "Advertisement", "Casino" and other custom words.