[ale] spyware and IE

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I don't think so.  I use Firefox (firebird / moz) almost exclusively, 
and only fire up IE to test site layout / design stuff.  When I go to 
see folks that use IE though, there are almost always one or two 
'toolbars' installed, and just about every site out there gives me some 
kind of targeted popup.  When these folks see my surprise at the crap 
that they put up with, they ask me what I use.  I gladly tell them, and 
leave them a Knoppix disk to 'test it out'. 


James P. Kinney III wrote:

>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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