#18 by Skinner kona0197 - 6/24/2004 8:34:26 PM
Quite the oppisite... with my high speed connection and my tough firewall I don't really care what browser I use because on such a fast connection everything is fast including IE. As far as security issues: I have nothing of value stored on my PC so I care not about that too. |
| with my high speed connection and my tough firewall |
A firewall won’t do squat in protecting you from the holes in IE. For instance, yesterday I had hundreds of threat warning (infection attempts) pop-ups on my AV console at work. Our IE installations are patched religiously, and there are numerous firewalls and router ACLs. Even with all those security measures, these attempts (http://news.com.com/Researchers+warn+of+infectious+Web+sites/2100-7349_3-5247187.html?tag=nl) still got through. The only thing that saved our ass was Symantec AV Corp. and updated virus defs. The only infection attempts that were noted were users that use IE. No attempts were recorded for users of Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, etc.
| I don't really care what browser I use because on such a fast connection everything is fast including IE |
So you use one of the most insecure browser by choice?
Also, I'm not sure about the others, but browers based on the Mozilla codebase are slower at rendering pages than IE. It has very little to do with the speed of your connection.
| As far as security issues: I have nothing of value stored on my PC so I care not about that too. |
With the widespread infections of trojans noted in the article linked to above, your and usernames, passwords, credit card info, etc. could have been compromised simply by USING the computer…it has nothing to do with storage of information. Also, by your statement, I guess your time isn’t very important to you…the time it would take to fix, restore, or rebuild your system when you get hit.
Thank you for reinforcing my statement in my original post.
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