From: Ernest T. Bass on

"Alias" <aka(a)maskedandanomymous.net.invalidado> wrote in message
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: On 7/21/2010 5:55 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
: > Alias wrote:
: >
: >> Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, etc. all have a security update today.
: >
: > This has what to do with Windows XP, the topic of *these* newsgroups?
:
: A lot of people who use XP or Win 7 also use Mozilla products, what
: else? By updating these products you are making XP more secure.
:
: --
: Alias

No, you trolling HoopleHead. You're making the Mozilla products more secure.


From: Gordon on
On 21/07/10 16:55, VanguardLH wrote:
> Alias wrote:
>
>> Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, etc. all have a security update today.
>
> This has what to do with Windows XP, the topic of *these* newsgroups?

It wasn't Alias who crossposted it - his original post was to
alt.windows7.general
From: Spamlet on

"Alias" <aka(a)maskedandanomymous.net.invalidado> wrote in message
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> Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, etc. all have a security update today.
>
> --
> Alias

Well I for one thank you for the tip, as, for some reason my Firefox had not
yet picked up the update automatically. And my XP system must be safer with
it than without.

(I have IE8, but I have never found a way to speed up it's opening, and got
fed up just staring at a tab labelled 'connecting' for ages, just to get to
'about blank'. No such issue with Firefox.)

Cheers,

S


From: Shenan Stanley on
Alias wrote:
> A lot of people who use XP or Win 7 also use Mozilla products, what
> else? By updating these products you are making XP more secure.

No - you are not making the operating system (XP in your example) more
secure.

You may be making the user data more secure that is stored on the system
drive/other storage devices that may be running a particular operating
system (XP in your example) - but you have not made the operating system
itself more secure.

You are making the data more secure because you are closing possible access
points to the data through 'issues' in the current version of whatever
application you are patching. You have done nothing to the core of the
operating system and the hole might not even exist if the application in
question was not installed.

If I purchase a bolt-down floor safe and put it in my home, my *home* is not
more secure but the valuables I store in the safe may be.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


From: Greg Russell on
"Alias" <aka(a)hewhoismasked&anonymous.com> wrote in message
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> This post of mine is helpful, especially if you use Mozilla products. It
> has NOT been announced on the tech sites, Yahoo or Google News.

Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Updates (tab).

Check "Firefox" in "Automatically check for updates ..." and check your
notification prefernce.

Then you won't have to be the self-appointed boy who cried "Wolf!", since
nobody is listening anyway.

If you had even bothered to give
http://mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.7/whatsnew/ even a cursory examination,
you would've easily seen that the update was not a security issue, but
rather more cosmetic than anything.

Get a life, please. Nobody needs you to tell them things they already know.