re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6
Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3936 messages posted)
Steve wrote:
|I never really had much problem with IE,
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...but have seen the cavalcade of folks in forums
that are infected to the core because of IE...
|but knowing it is a Magnet for Malware
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...having observed ample evidence from a safe distance...
|makes not using IE is just a easy preventative measure in PC Bit decay.
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The only "advantage" to Internet Exploder is having ActiveX.[1]
I don't go anywhere that uses ActiveX, so I don't need IE.
If I *did* encounter a site that used ActiveX, (having shown how clueless they are)
I would look for *another* site/corp that provided a similar service
--and who knows WTF they are doing.
If, after that, I still couldn't get along without the idiots[2]
(especially if I was forced to use Windoze)[3],
I'd install a _very_ old version of a Mozilla-compatible browser
(hey, even that beats what M$ offers WRT browser security)
and I'd make a profile for that site/setup.
I'd then install the ancient no-longer-supported ActiveX plug-in for Mozilla:
cache
of http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm#introduction
(Scroll down to see what I mean about a _very_ old version.)
After dealing with the idiots' site, I'd shut down that browser
and go back to my modern, muscular, dumps-the-crap browser
(a browser that, BTW, knows how to do *.SVG and *.PNG).
Of course, a much better way to avoid the nasties is not to use any M$ code at all.
[1] IE also has Browser Helper Objects, but that is purely a DISadvantage
--only useful to infect your box.
There are a multitude of ways to do all that stuff *without* easily-exploited crap.
[2] Let's have a silent moment for the people of South Korea
whose entire IT infrastructure is built on ActiveCrap.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1247427038
[3] A safer way to run Internet Exploder / ActiveX is under WINE
(in turn under Linux/BDS/OpenSolaris/...).
All the M$ crapware becomes totally benign.
The **safest** way to run Internet Exploder / ActiveX is in a virtual machine.
(Even with a Windoze host)
the (guest) copy of Windoze becomes bulletproof.
Why anyone would run a M$ system they depend on outside a VM
is totally beyond me this far into the 21st Century.
It's even easier than mechanically re-imaging a Windoze drive after it's infected.
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