02-02-2004, 08:03 AM
Thank you all. :)
Other than ActiveX, which has been patched for quite some time, I don't think IE is a whole lot less secure than any other browser. I think the main issue, is that most people use IE so most of the hacks are designed to work with it. But there is no reason that a java hack, for instance, wouldn't work in any browser that supported java. Of course in the past microsoft has used their own flavor of java, but it shouldn't be too hard to design something that would work in all of them. And actually shutting down activex, and java, and cookies and all that stuff is what i was referring to when I said not being able to browse 80% of the internet. Sure, you could get away with using a plain vanilla text based browser, but who would want to. :P Also both mozilla and opera have been popular for quite some time now, if I were going to use a different browser in the hopes that most websites wouldn't even be designed to target it, I would choose something else, there are a few other good ones that I know of out there. :)
Other than ActiveX, which has been patched for quite some time, I don't think IE is a whole lot less secure than any other browser. I think the main issue, is that most people use IE so most of the hacks are designed to work with it. But there is no reason that a java hack, for instance, wouldn't work in any browser that supported java. Of course in the past microsoft has used their own flavor of java, but it shouldn't be too hard to design something that would work in all of them. And actually shutting down activex, and java, and cookies and all that stuff is what i was referring to when I said not being able to browse 80% of the internet. Sure, you could get away with using a plain vanilla text based browser, but who would want to. :P Also both mozilla and opera have been popular for quite some time now, if I were going to use a different browser in the hopes that most websites wouldn't even be designed to target it, I would choose something else, there are a few other good ones that I know of out there. :)