, The Register 2004-06-28
US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed.
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CERT recommends anything but IE
2004-06-28
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CERT recommends anything but IE
2004-06-28
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CERT recommends anything but IE
2004-06-29
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CERT recommends anything but IE
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2004-06-29
Brian McMahon <brian.mcmahon (at) cabrillo (dot) edu [email concealed]>
Brian McMahon <brian.mcmahon (at) cabrillo (dot) edu [email concealed]>
Several of the alternatives are now far *more* capable than MSIE. In fact with a little Googling you'll easily find suites of web sites that exist to demonstrate how poorly MSIE meets the latest standards.
The *only* things MSIE can do that the best alternatives don't do at least as well, or better, are:
a) windowsupdate.com. For now...
b) broken stuff that was foolish to put in a browser in the first place (e.g. ActiveX) which consequently is disabled by sensible users anyway.
Most Windows Opera and Firefox users keep MSIE hanging around for one purpose, with it's home page set to www.windowsupdate.com. Eventually even that won't be necessary. Otherwise, using MSIE is embarrassingly bad once you've tried a better browser!
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