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echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: John Beckett
date: 2006-10-23 19:11:04
subject: Re: Browser Security

From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news::
> You cannot have a secure browser in todays world without breaking countless
> websites that depend on the ability to run their untrusted code on your
> computer. As long as you allow all these websites to run untrusted code on
> your machine you cannot be secure.

Bingo! I haven't run Vista. I wonder how it will work with Windows Update
(Microsoft Update?). In Windows Server 2003, the system offers stupid
prompts about clicking the infobar. I'm not sure if it's some interaction
with our proxy, but I find I also have to uninstall the Internet Explorer
Security feature of W2003 before WU works.

So right away I have been trained to perform meaningless clicks to get the
damned thing to run ... any normal user would do exactly the same stuff
when malware.com gives them the same prompts.

Also, I am REALLY annoyed how that stupid infobar says something like how
an ActiveX control has been disabled ... click for more info. And there is
NO more info! Either tell me what the disabled control is, or STFU!

John

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