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This is a discussion on Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch within the General Discussion forums, part of the Everything But Cigars category; just thought I would share this as its a security flaw relating to passwords http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/111811 I like using firefox anyways...
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Old 12-17-2008, 12:18 AM   #1
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Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch
just thought I would share this as its a security flaw relating to passwords

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/111811

I like using firefox anyways
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Old 12-17-2008, 11:52 AM   #2
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Re: Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch
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just thought I would share this as its a security flaw relating to passwords

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/111811

I like using firefox anyways

Thanks for the heads up
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Old 12-17-2008, 12:20 PM   #3
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Oh that's just great..

Thanks for the warning...
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Old 12-17-2008, 01:10 PM   #4
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Re: Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch
i've been using mozilla firefox for years now.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
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Old 12-17-2008, 02:18 PM   #5
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Re: Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch
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i've been using mozilla firefox for years now.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
+1 and i never looked back. FireFox is sooooo much better than IE
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Old 12-17-2008, 02:25 PM   #6
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Re: Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch
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just thought I would share this as its a security flaw relating to passwords

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/111811

I like using firefox anyways
I prefer Firefox also and use it for pretty much everything. I do keep IE installed just in case something comes up that Firefox can't handle, but with the latest version of Firefox I've not needed to use IE at all (at least so far).
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Old 12-17-2008, 05:48 PM   #7
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I use Firefox.
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Old 12-17-2008, 05:54 PM   #8
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i was reluctant to switch to firefox but once i did ive never looked back so much ezer 2 use and so many options to use you can customize it to fit you
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Old 12-17-2008, 06:03 PM   #9
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Re: Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch
IE had a major security update today, wonder if that fixed the problem?!?
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Re: Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch
I'm starting to wonder... Is IE ever really fixed?

The patch release today does seem to address this flaw without mentioning passwords in the release though.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/micr...erious-ie-flaw

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec.../ms08-078.mspx
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Mac user here, sorry for the trouble the PC people are having.
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Old 12-18-2008, 09:59 AM   #12
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Firefox is the way to go. You'd figure after all these years, Microsoft would get their act together.
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Re: Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch
When you have pretty much every hacker in the world trying to crack your stuff it makes it hard to keep up I'm sure. That's the only reason Firefox is more secure, they don't have the marketshare to make it worthwhile for hackers to go after them. Same thing with Macs.
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Re: Major flaw revealed in Internet Explorer; users urged to switch
I agree that Firefox has been the only browser for years. I also have Opera on my Nokia N800.

Firefox is open source and free. If you love that, you'll love this. Why pay for Microsoft Office, which probably has many of the same flaws as Explorer? OpenOffice is the way to go.
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After discovering OpenOffice a couple of years ago I will never again use MSOffice.
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