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1. Comment - Google to IE Users: Try Firefox

   (Apr 28, 2006 - 4:44 AM)

   humm... complaining about a test beta service not working with a test and unfinished beta browser...
   
   but only if IE6 didnt had soooo many problems, more time would go to tune up other browsers... IE6 still is about 70% of the browsers...

2. Comment - Google to IE Users: Try Firefox

   (Apr 28, 2006 - 4:43 AM)

   try privoxy or proxymintron, both of then are free and work very well... privoxy is extremly configurable, it can also change pages on-the-fly, like greasymonkey

3. Comment - AOL Rejects Microsoft Antispam Tech

   (Sep 17, 2004 - 11:36 AM)

   SPF and sender id have nothing to do with spam...
   they allow one to check if the email is allowed from comming from that server
   
   this will make very hard for someone to fake a email from other people, and so spam and virus will get rejected...
   
   BUT there is nothing that forbides the spammer from buying a domain, setup the SPF and send the spam, and so, SPF isnt about spam, but building the link about who send the email and who the emails claim to be
   
   of course in the end, if one can trust the from:, we can whitelist the good domains and blacklist the bad ones
   the bad ones will always keep changing, but the true gain will be the trust in the whitelist and the end of abusing other people domain

4. Comment - 10 Security Flaws Found in Mozilla

   (Sep 17, 2004 - 11:11 AM)

   "The famous "drag and drop" flaw assumes that someone would drag an image from a web site TO THEIR STARTUP FOLDER."
   
   you never hear about scripts? could be hard? yes, impossible? no...
   
   yes, there are bugs that are hard to exploit, but check the openBSD mailing list and you will see that none are left behind and this already save then several times
   
   check the l0pth archives, they used several "impossible to exploit holes" to exploit windows machines
   
   the bug of crossing securities zones in IE existed for years, with little usefullness, until someone found a way to use it successful
   
   "that folder? That's like saying "Format C:" is a vulnerability in cmd.exe."
   
   yes if it allowed a normal user to do it, instead of just the administrator
   
   "NOTE: Currently known attack vectors do not work on Windows XP systems with SP2 applied."
   
   at least 2 security bug already have been discovered in XP sp2 and bypass the "run internet file?" warning and MS already said that it will not fix then... i'm waiting to this backfire very soon
   
   also, not everyone use XP, much less SP2, so its still a BIG problem
   (and dont say people should upgrade, i cant upgrade servers and its expensive to upgrade
   hundred of machines... are you willing to pay the upgrade?)
   
   "Shows how much you know about IE--Internet Explorer is part of Windows, yes,"
   
   that was what i said, but firefox use the system dlls for helper for interaction with windows, IE use the system for everything...
   the 10Mb of internet explorer are useless, you can erase it, the IE will still exist inside the system
   
   "redistributables for a beta of IE 7 are less than 5 MB."
   
   so, in a 60Mb package they will update 5Mb...
   this show that they will not fix their browser, they will only update some thing in the interface, update some libraries and i'm almost sure, it will not suport win9x/winME because MS want's to kill then
   
   so the IE7 will be another marketing release, nothing will really change, probably XP sp2 have changed more that IE7 will change
   
   Thanks god we have mozilla and opera, linux, *bsd and mac, thanks god we have alternatives

5. Comment - 10 Security Flaws Found in Mozilla

   (Sep 17, 2004 - 7:48 AM)

   "Firefox seem to deny my entrance to ALL these systems so to me firefox is a piece of low dirt crap."
   
   no, your banks and sites are the ones that are a low dirt crap... pick then up and go check then in the validator.w3c.org and you will see the crapy code they have
   most of that sites cant even work in IE for Mac, so that tells you a in big letters: "THIS SITE SUCKS, we dont care about our customers to even fix the bad code"
   you can only do 2 things: complain hard and if they ignore you, change banks, stop using that site, complain even more
   
   in all sites that i use nome have problem with mozilla's, i have complain alot and all the sites that had problems now work fine
   
   try to explain that they might have lower mozilla scores compared with IE, because as the site dont work, people will go away, and show up the statistcs from another site with alot more mozilla likes browsers, or even beter, some news about it
   
   on good tip to help the complain is to put that site in the homepage, and load it as much as you can... this way they will see the mozilla stats going up slowly and think twice before making crap html
   
   "Security my buttocks also, how do we know FF is secure? I have seen NO proof whatsoever, for that matter of sake the people behind Mizilla could be harvesting creditcard numbers as we speak,"
   
   you have the source code, you can check
   actually this is what this security companies have done, they open the source code, check for possible holes and then go test then
   
   also, in IE you cant do this, how do you know that MS isnt harvesting creditcard numbers? they cant? what stop then to hire some chinese and give then the code to do it, and then the chinese buy MS lots of software...
   
   when security is at risk, we must be paranoid
   
   "What do ANY of you know about how secure your browser is?"
   
   more than IE, it dont have a direct connection to the system internal commands, so even everything is equal, this will help alot
   
   also, i use linux, so its another layer of security, the more layers you have, the better the security is, because if one fails (and will fail some day), you have another to protect you, and another, and another...
   
   "FireFox got a long way to go before it gets even half as good as IE."
   
   IE is a long way before it gets even hald as good and secure as firefox