[Arrow]

Hi Atmosphere - just attempting to broaden the often one tracked browser debate

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BenoitRen
Your pc can silently get taken over and added to a botnet that sends SPAM to everyone.

Hi again

On 56k I very much doubt it it

Broadband makes you an ideal target for that type of exploit, but no one is suggesting not to use BB or seriously thinking that a non internet explorer browser alone will save you from it.

Someone could equally likely physically break in and walk off with your pc
but that eventuality rarely gets a mention in security discussions

If you go out to work or on holiday and the HD isn't protected/encrypted and backed up better pop the drive out and hide it.

[no use encrypting it in this scenario if not backed up - your encrypted HD is of no use to you in someone elses hands]

or only store sensitive stuff on well concealed cd/dvd disks etc preferably encrypted and read only rather than on the internal HD

This post has been edited by Arrow: 11 November 2006 - 01:27 AM

[myelin]

Arrow: I love I.E, but it freezes my system from time to time, this happens to every I.E based browser on Windows98SE execpt Gecko based browsers. Firefox works fine. Why I.E based browsers freeze system or reduce the resourses to lower then 10 % if it is used for long periods of time? ..... And you wrote it yourself that you use K-meleon. On Windows 2000 or XP even I.E 5.5 would work fine. Am i right?

[BenoitRen]

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How ?

Trojan horses, viruses, other malware. They just need a good exploit and they're in.

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using my IE4 is safe seeing how I do not visit such webpage or take my chance with IRC chats

IE4 is not safe, even when you visit trusted sites. For example, one year ago, Mega Man Network, a site I would trust, suddenly started spreading trojan horses and other malware. IE users would get infected or warned through their anti-virus products, users of Gecko-based browsers would wonder what the fuss was all about, as they didn't see a thing. It turned out that the website's host got hijacked somehow, which affected all sites hosted by it. They couldn't do anything about it.

Second, IE doesn't do IRC.

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What about Firefox 2?Its a lot safer becasue this is the only remaining browsers that DOESN'T rely on the IE engine.Instead it uses the much safer Gecko.

...What? SeaMonkey, Camino, K-Meleon, Epiphany, etc. also use the Gecko engine.
And no, Gecko is not the only other rendering engine aside from IE. Konqueror and Safari both use KHTML, Opera used Presto up to version 8, and now uses Merlin.

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On 56k I very much doubt it it

Viruses already existed on the Internet in the days of 56 kbps, and yes, they did spread. They aren't big at all.

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Someone could equally likely physically break in and walk off with your pc
but that eventuality rarely gets a mention in security discussions

That's because it doesn't have anything to do with computer security. It's theft.
"Oh no, my TV is not secure because someone can break in and walk off with it!"

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If you go out to work or on holiday and the HD isn't protected/encrypted and backed up better pop the drive out and hide it.

[no use encrypting it in this scenario if not backed up - your encrypted HD is of no use to you in someone elses hands]

or only store sensitive stuff on well concealed cd/dvd disks etc preferably encrypted and read only rather than on the internal HD

You're confusing security with privacy.

[MDGx]

List of IE + Firefox/Mozilla based browsers + "skins" [free(ware)]:
http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#BLX

HTH

[myelin]

MDGx, on Nov 13 2006, 01:44 PM, said:

List of IE + Firefox/Mozilla based browsers + "skins" [free(ware)]:
http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#BLX

HTH

Thanks for the link.