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From: John Hacker Jr on 16 Jan 2010 16:40
Now this must be the news of 2010

After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service Packs,
IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems. Either
M$ is now threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is completely
rubbish. Either way we should start taking instructions from the German
government if this article is anything to go by.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm>

Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 16 Jan 2010 20:38
John Hacker <Jr> <xfsgpr(a)googlemaiI.com> wrote:

>After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service Packs,
>IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.

"So far, Microsoft "has not seen widespread customer impact, rather
only targeted and limited attacks exploiting Internet Explorer 6""
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8460819.stm

Someone is still running IE 6?

Firefox and Mac OSs have just as many security vulnerabilities and
patches as IE and Windows.

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From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] on 16 Jan 2010 23:11
> The time and expense (virtually $0 dollars) of
> switching was more than offset in the savings on AV software, etc alone.

Absolutely no lost productivity due to employees learning new software?

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"Carmel" <carmel_ny(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:42:36 -0800 (PST)
> John Hacker <xfsgpr(a)googlemail.com> articulated:
>
>> Now this must be the news of 2010
>>
>> After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service
>> Packs, IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.
>> Either M$ is now threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is
>> completely rubbish. Either way we should start taking instructions
>> from the German government if this article is anything to go by.
>>
>> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm>
>>
>> Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?
>
> Microsoft has never taken "security", despite their claims, seriously.
> As long as they can convince users to use their products, they have no
> incentive to strengthen their products against security threats. The
> basic underlying architecture of Windows itself is virtually void of
> security. Anyone interested in real security would use a non-win32/64
> system. My own company switched to FreeBSD, and conversely MUAs, etc. a
> few years ago. Since that time not a single virus or Trojan has ever
> appeared on our system. The time and expense (virtually $0 dollars) of
> switching was more than offset in the savings on AV software, etc alone.
>
> --
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From: senn on 17 Jan 2010 07:59

"John Hacker" <xfsgpr(a)googlemail.com> skrev i meddelelsen
news:4dca25d4-e4dd-4f2d-a6c0-6e2300065b48(a)c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> Now this must be the news of 2010
>
> After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service
> Packs, IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.
> Either M$ is now threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is
> completely rubbish. Either way we should start taking instructions
> from the German government if this article is anything to go by.
>
> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm>
>
> Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?

The reason of what look likes to you of many more virus
infections in IE browsers are surely a result of the very profound
inegualities in market share. This inegualities is perhaps as profound
as around 1 to 99 or till something around 5 to 99.
That said; you're right on another point. Windows users has been
overloaded with problems araising from the fact that too many new
programs has been sent out having problems, even all formers never
gets fully unbuged. Even far from unbuged. The company apparently
needs money and/or lacks qualified programmers.
And my windows 7 64bit is just as slow as Vista was. In fact, windows 7
is a disguised Vista.
/senn

From: Peter Foldes on 17 Jan 2010 08:58
Senn

What have you been smoking.

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"senn" <senn(a)homeplace&.fix> wrote in message
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>
> "John Hacker" <xfsgpr(a)googlemail.com> skrev i meddelelsen
> news:4dca25d4-e4dd-4f2d-a6c0-6e2300065b48(a)c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
>> Now this must be the news of 2010
>>
>> After nearly 10 years of unlimited patches, hotfixes and service
>> Packs, IE is still a weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.
>> Either M$ is now threatened by Googles rise to prominence or IE is
>> completely rubbish. Either way we should start taking instructions
>> from the German government if this article is anything to go by.
>>
>> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8463516.stm>
>>
>> Is google's search engine more powerful than M$ Bing?
>
> The reason of what look likes to you of many more virus
> infections in IE browsers are surely a result of the very profound
> inegualities in market share. This inegualities is perhaps as profound
> as around 1 to 99 or till something around 5 to 99.
> That said; you're right on another point. Windows users has been
> overloaded with problems araising from the fact that too many new
> programs has been sent out having problems, even all formers never
> gets fully unbuged. Even far from unbuged. The company apparently
> needs money and/or lacks qualified programmers.
> And my windows 7 64bit is just as slow as Vista was. In fact, windows 7
> is a disguised Vista.
> /senn

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