Microsoft wants people to tone down IE

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jfall

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In a surprise move Microsoft wants users to limit its browsers functionality for better security. Already Microsoft says if you?re running SP2 you?re in the clear, but for those who don't want to test SP2 right now there is another option (not quite as good). Such as disabling JavaScript and to adjust your security settings.

Microsoft is doing something unprecedented: It wants you to break one of Internet Explorer's key features. Why? Because only by limiting the browser's functionality can you be sure of stopping a sneaky--and dangerous--new breed of Internet virus. This latest targeted attack scenario, which uses malicious code dubbed "Scob" or "downlad.ject," exploits three flaws: two in Windows and one in Internet Explorer. One of the holes involves JavaScript; targeting this flaw, the Scob code lets a hacker attach a program written in JavaScript to Web pages. If you visit an infected Web site, the program automatically executes in IE, and voila! you're infected.

Taking advantage of these multiple flaws, a group of Russian crackers recently mounted attacks on several hundred Web sites--aimed at putting lots of visitors at risk. Included on their hit list were some very reputable sites. Some Scob virus strains installed keystroke-logging software on users' PCs--apparently to steal financial data (head to "Known Trojan Still Plagues Web Servers" for more details).

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Kipper

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Cliff notes: security preferences to high, turn off active x and javascript, etc.

Translation: Use Firefox.
 
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DnetMHZ

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Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
Cliff notes: security preferences to high, turn off active x and javascript, etc.

Translation: Use Firefox.
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And it has begun...
 
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yukichigai

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Y'know, they tell you how to turn off ActiveX, but they don't tell you how to stop those f%$#ing "ActiveX Disabled" warnings from popping up. So damn annoying. I think after 10, maybe 15 minutes of that half the people who've done it will either turn it back on ('cause they're retards) or go to another browser.
 
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nightowl

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Firefox is nice but it does not always remember where you were at on the last page you visited. In IE if you were scrolled halfway down a page and clicked a link and then clicked back you would be halfway down the page still. In Firefox, more than likely you will be at the very top of the page still and every once in awhile it will take you halfway down the page again but rarely does it do this. :confused:
 
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eLiu

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My gripe about firefox is how much d*mn memory it uses. But yeah...it grows more appealing everyday... *sigh*
 
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RagingBITCH

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SP2 is fantastic - blocks all the bullsh!t popups and crap popping up. I'm looking forward to the actual release here in about another month or so (using Beta 1 right now)
 
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Encryptic

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Originally posted by: nightowl
Firefox is nice but it does not always remember where you were at on the last page you visited. In IE if you were scrolled halfway down a page and clicked a link and then clicked back you would be halfway down the page still. In Firefox, more than likely you will be at the very top of the page still and every once in awhile it will take you halfway down the page again but rarely does it do this. :confused:
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I haven't noticed much of a problem with this in Firefox, but if it bothers you, you could open the link in a new tab or window. That should solve the problem, AFAIK.
 
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Originally posted by: yukichigai
Y'know, they tell you how to turn off ActiveX, but they don't tell you how to stop those f%$#ing "ActiveX Disabled" warnings from popping up. So damn annoying. I think after 10, maybe 15 minutes of that half the people who've done it will either turn it back on ('cause they're retards) or go to another browser.
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I've been using Firefox since Firebird 0.6, but that damn IE "feature" of telling you that ActiveX is disabled is the most $%@$#%'ng annoying thing in the world, and it CAN'T be disabled. Which is why I left IE for Fbird way back when. The only way to get around it and still use IE is to use something like Avant Browser or MyIE2.

My gripe about firefox is how much d*mn memory it uses. But yeah...it grows more appealing everyday... *sigh*
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A lot of folks think that there's a memory leak in Firefox, but there isn't. It allocates a lot of memory for caching to enhance browser performance. The amount it allocates is more or less proportional to the amount of free memory you have. I don't understand why some people have 512mb of RAM and then complain that Firefox uses ~90mb, when they have something like 200mb free. Firefox does this intentionally, it's not a bug. If some other program wants to whorde a lot of RAM Firefox will acquiesce as far as I know.
 
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Originally posted by: nightowl
Firefox is nice but it does not always remember where you were at on the last page you visited. In IE if you were scrolled halfway down a page and clicked a link and then clicked back you would be halfway down the page still. In Firefox, more than likely you will be at the very top of the page still and every once in awhile it will take you halfway down the page again but rarely does it do this. :confused:
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same thing happens to me! :|
 
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darkswordsman17

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I have 1Gb of RAM and when I use Firefox it uses not very much memory at all. Barely more than IE. Perhaps I have some browser caching option off or set low? I know I had set IE's to a low value.
 
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shimsham

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Originally posted by: iloveme2
Originally posted by: nightowl
Firefox is nice but it does not always remember where you were at on the last page you visited. In IE if you were scrolled halfway down a page and clicked a link and then clicked back you would be halfway down the page still. In Firefox, more than likely you will be at the very top of the page still and every once in awhile it will take you halfway down the page again but rarely does it do this. :confused:
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same thing happens to me! :|
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me too. i have found that if you return to the top when going back to a page, dont scroll or anything. i click the mouse wheel button, and it takes me to the area i was last, and then i just left click on a blank space to stop the scrolling arrows things.

hope that made sense.
 
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Thraxen

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Firefox is nice but it does not always remember where you were at on the last page you visited. In IE if you were scrolled halfway down a page and clicked a link and then clicked back you would be halfway down the page still. In Firefox, more than likely you will be at the very top of the page still and every once in awhile it will take you halfway down the page again but rarely does it do this.
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I'm using Firefox right now and just tried this several times. It went back to the same spot each time. I've never seen this problem you are talking about.
 
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