[ale] spyware and IE

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon May 24 13:42:49 EDT 2004


Is any other browser besides IE that is susceptible to the current
onslaught of spyware? I have been using this as a reason to migrate
people away from IE. So far, none of my Mozilla/Firefox users have been
hit with anything (yet). I'm reasonably sure that the underlying
technology is sufficiently different that the spyware would need to be
written for the new browsers. But I'm not sure.

Are these new, evil things (spyware, etc) exploiting browser technology
or just poor security models in IE?
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