DNA wrote:
|SpywareBlaster
|Prevent[s] the installation of ActiveX-based spyware
|
Mozilla browsers don't support ActiveX natively. (No vulnerability.)

|browser hijackers
|
Unlike IE, Mozilla browsers don't support Browser Helper Objects
that would aid in their own hijacking. (No vulnerability.)

|adware,
|dialers, and other potentially unwanted software.
|
How does it do that?  Isn't that BHOs again?

|Block spyware/tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox.
|
Mozilla browsers have a built-in Cookie Manager.

|Restrict the actions of potentially unwanted sites in Internet Explorer.
|
Mozilla browsers don't use that silly pseudo-security Zones nonsense
that Internet Exploder does.

|Since SpywareBlaster sets 'block lists',
|
...in the Registry, where IE can use them.
Explain how that helps folks who run Mozilla or Opera.

Wouldn't be easier to simply STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER
(as I did long ago) and switch to Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Opera,...
y'know--a more secure browser--one that that doesn't have all these flaws
which need to be patched by a 3rd-party gimmick?


...or am I missing something?
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of http://www.wilderssecurity.com/archive/index.php/t-29130.html


Got a page that explains how it might help a non-IE browser?

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