MisterKurtz
Fri Aug 27 09:22:15 CDT 2004
"Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <levinson_k@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:uItGkcCjEHA.636@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>
> "N. Miller" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1b9854a13f124f3e98a38c@msnews.microsoft.com...
> > In article <gDhXc.191796$5D1.9019609@news4.tin.it>, Kappa says...
> >
> > > Bug on all IE 5,6 and Windows XP SP2 ...
> >
> > >
http://www.k-otik.net/bugtraq/08222004.IEDragNdrop.php
> >
> > > Disable Script Java ...
> >
> > Better yet, disable MS Internal Exploder!
>
> Unfortunately, you can't. Key parts of IE like the MS HTML rendering
> subsystem and the zones feature are core Windows components. Some IE and
OE
> vulnerabilities still affect you even if you don't use them or have
> "uninstalled" them. Moving from IE to, say, Mozilla, removes some of the
IE
> vulnerabilities but adds all of the Mozilla vulnerabilities, for a net
> effect of who knows what. You would have to move to a non-Windows
operating
> system to totally avoid IE vulnerabilities.
>
> And Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox etc. have all had some serious
> vulnerabilities found, one of them unpatched for five years.
>
> IE on Windows XP SP2 is a lot more secure. If you've got XP, IE might be
as
> safe or safer than Mozilla, who knows.
>
>
Can you say FUD
Kurtz