Re: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk
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Jeff Martin wrote:
> My theory - there are gazillion corporate and business apps that don't run on
> IE7 thus users do not update even their personal PCs (for VPN access to those
> apps.). I work for a hospital and we have apps that only recently with IE6.
> When we ask about plans for IE8 support, we get the blank stare. Who doesn't
> love ActiveX?
Yeah, that was what I tried to get at earlier.
So now, what does that say about us? Who's the sucker...
We are PAYING for that type of crappy service.
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> --- On Tue, 7/1/08, Nick FitzGerald <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: RE: New Paper: More than 600 million users surf at high risk
>> To: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 8:27 PM
>> Paul Schmehl to Larry Seltzer:
>>
>>> My completely non-scientific,
>> unsupported-by-empirical-evidence answer is
>>> no. It's because people who use Firefox tend to
>> be more aware of security
>>> threats and the need to keep software up to date. It
>> could also be (at
>>> least in part) because Firefox has a built-in,
>> enabled-by-default, update
>>> available warning system.
>> I would agree with both those reasons and add that FF
>> updates are not
>> hampered by the disabling of the inbuilt (and often
>> seriously mistrusted)
>> OS auto-update mechanisms.
>>
>> I also _suspect_ that a lot of pirated copies of Windows
>> probably have
>> system updates disabled.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nick FitzGerald
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