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Tuesday, April 13 2004

Browsers are the new nightmare?  by Craig D at 09:32

With the recent amount of irc script viruses, this article on the inquirer is quite interesting,

According to the Computing Technology Industry Association's annual survey on IT security, the number of attacks conducted by attackers by enticing users to malicious Web sites by e-mailing links has swelled by a quarter.

Read the full article here http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15302.

As always, I suggest using a browser which doesn't allow control over large parts of your operating system, in a word, Mozilla. I personally recommend giving Firefox a try.
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Felon
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13 April 2004 09:35
Good news post this Mani, more people need to be aware of the dangers of clicking links in irc . *cough* MaZ
Mani
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13 April 2004 09:39
Hehe, some people never learn. Firefox simply rocks, it's fast, small and easy to use. With a little bity of tinkering, you can make it do just about anythgin IE can do, but without the glaring security holes.
morkith
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13 April 2004 12:08
Yes I also use Firefox, and used its previous incarnation Firebird.
Two
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13 April 2004 16:23
im usin firebird. /me upgrades to firefox :D
Scrappy
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16 April 2004 11:07
Using Safari on OS X. Still no viruses for this OS yet :)


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