RE: IE is just as safe as FireFox

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

And what do you plan on doing about the unpatched exploited recently
released? There are holes for SP2...ones that haven't even been released
yet...


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        Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:44 AM
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        Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox
        
        
        That is incorrect, there is a fix --> SP2.
        Users should use the latest updated system, meaning if there is
an SP2, they 
        should install it.
        
        
        Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider
        Security Consultant
        Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC)
        Finjan Software LTD
        E-mail: rivgi () Finjan com
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        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: "Martin Mkrtchian" <dotsecure () gmail com>
        To: "Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>
        Cc: "Mailing List - Full-Disclosure"
<full-disclosure () lists netsys com>; 
        <ring-of-fire () yahoogroups com>
        Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 3:03 AM
        Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox
        
        
        > They should've at least released that statement after they
fixed the
        > IE FRAME vulnerability. 0 day exploit is in the wild and no
fix for
        > it, yet they claim its secure enough.
        >
        > If the programmers are as smart as the company press
releasers, I can
        > see  why I.E. still sux.
        >
        >
        > Martin
        >
        >
        > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:59:20 -0600, Todd Towles
        > <toddtowles () brookshires com> wrote:
        >> Microsoft's security and mangement product manager (Ben
English) says...
        >>
        >> At a security roundtable discussion in Sydney on Thursday,
Ben English,
        >> Microsoft's security and management product manager, told
attendees that
        >> IE undergoes "rigorous code reviews" and is no less secure
than any
        >> other browser.
        >>
        >> "Because IE is ubiquitous, you hear a lot more about it, but
I don't
        >> think that Internet Explorer is any less secure than any
other browser
        >> out there," English said.
        >>
        >>
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+says+Firefox+not+a+threat+to+IE/2100-1032_
        >> 3-5448719.html?part=dht&tag=ntop&tag=nl.e433
        >>
        >> Can anyone say IFRAME? Lol
        >>
        >> -Todd
        >>
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