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RE: Study: Internet Explorer Dominates the Web

Subject: RE: Study: Internet Explorer Dominates the Web
From: Kelley <the-squeeze -at- pulpculture -dot- org>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 13:07:31 -0400


At 11:16 AM 5/1/02 -0500, Nora Merhar wrote:

Hmm... Netscape is at something like 6.2 right now. Why are the Netscape
versions used so old?


All our clients have to be super secure--HIPPA and GLB Bills. They use Netscape 4.x, avoiding Microsoft applications for security reasons.

BTW, I don't recall who said it, but using Web mail like Yahoo! or Hotmail or Lycos doesn't protect you from viruses and worms. For that, you need to use anti-virus software and delete, unread and unopened,[1] any email attachments you weren't expecting--regardless of whether they are from a stranger or someone you know.

Clients also know that worm and virus writers target Microsoft apps _because_ of their ubiquity. It's easy to be successful and get attention writing virus code that attacks IE and/or Outlook. Using Microsoft Internet Exploder guarantees that a firm's admins will be patching way more than they need to be. Patching isn't a simple matter for an enterprise since it can destabilize the code base.

Why the older versions? Clients use the older versions of Netscape because they dislike the buggy-ness and slowness of the newer versions.


Kelley

[1] FYI at home: Yes, it's now possible to "get a virus" even if you never opened an attachment. Last year, a worm circulated and infected users who merely viewed the mail in the preview pane in Outlook.

http://office.microsoft.com/2000/downloaddetails/o2kiefrm.htm
Security patch for Outlook 2000 prevents malicious Java code from running in an HTML message.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-020.asp
MS01-020 - Incorrect MIME Header Can Cause IE to Execute E-mail Attachment
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/9798/confirm.aspx
HTML mail vulnerability that makes it possible for a message to run an embedded file attachment when the user simply previews the message.

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