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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
2 weeks ago
Two weeks ago I spent the day at a major UK financial institution talking about our anti-spam service. One of the things they asked me was what they should be looking out for next. They feel that as a customer of ours they already have the email virus problem licked, and spam is mostly taken care of, but they expect there will be a new avenue of entry that they haven't thought about.
I talked to them about IM, but they outright block it (to the best of their abilities, via both firewall and proxy blocks). So the only thing I could think that they might be vulnerable to was Spyware. We spoke briefly about this and they asked what they could do. I told them to dump IE in favour of Mozilla or Firefox.
Amazingly they didn't seem too against the idea.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
Firefox just starting to receive attention... (Score:2)
Whilst firefox is an improvement, it's still got problems of its own. Have a look at this demo [nd.edu] for a good example.
-Dom
Re:Firefox just starting to receive attention... (Score:1)
That is so cool|scary!
Re:Firefox just starting to receive attention... (Score:2)
Re:Firefox just starting to receive attention... (Score:2)
-Dom
MS annoying their own advocates (Score:2)
Our IT dept is getting annoyed with SpyWare and AdWare and other malware that installs it's self via IE. So far they are not keen to swicth to another browser, they are very loyal to MS, but cleaning infected machines is starting to try their patience.
At the individual level, I'm converting people one at a time from IE to Firefox, and having some success. I find once people have installed Firefox they seem happy to stay put.
-- "It's not magic, it's work..."
2 things about browsers (Score:2)
2) Given a choice would you rather have to admin 100's of peoples desktops and having to patch their O/S regularly just to keep on top of frequent critical flaws in their browser or upgrade only the browser and less often
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;
Re:2 things about browsers (Score:2)
-Dom
Re:2 things about browsers (Score:2)
Patching windows is known to be something you shouldn't do blindly as it can break key business applications. Also the patches often interfere with unexpected and unexplained parts of the system and behaviour.
It is a lot better to be able to apply a patch to just the browser, particularly if you have different versions of the O/S running. In
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;