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jplove71
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Re: Patches Galore!

said by Matt See Profile:
said by navalpatel See Profile:
But IE users just love all the patches that Microsoft comes out with! * rolls eyes * - please switch to a real browser Mozilla Firefox

Don't be so smug. Firecrap has patches too.

While this is true, the developers of Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox don't wait several months to patch their browser.

If I recall correctly, IE is still susceptible to phishing!
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Rhobite
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said by jplove71 See Profile:
If I recall correctly, IE is still susceptible to phishing!

Um, phishing is a social engineering attack. Any browser is susceptible, given the right user.
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B
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I believe the reference is to IE's willingness to display false information in both the URL box and the status bar.

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Rhobite
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said by B See Profile:

I believe the reference is to IE's willingness to display false information in both the URL box and the status bar.
Oh, that's sort of true. The glaring URL box issue was fixed several months ago but that was a big snafu by Microsoft, it went unpatched for an inexcusable amount of time. The status bar text can be changed in IE but that's not a huge vulnerability. Many of the issues with UI spoofing and window resizing have been fixed in SP2.
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