At Friday, March 31, 2006 3:08 PM, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote:
> Is it IE that's insecure? Or how the workstations are setup in the > first place? Both. I remember back to using IE version 1 and having to maintain web developer desktops with multiple versions of IE and Netscape. IE/Windows has always had more insecure defaults, more bugs and vulnerabilities, and caused more problems than any of the other browsers. In hindsight, Windows 2000/XP/2003 should never have been released while effectively requiring users to be local admins on the box (and despite what the official guidelines say, there are too many cases of even Microsoft software assuming that you're local admin to hide the fact that these platforms have NOT been designed with LUA in mind). This problem bites the users of any browser, and adjusting current versions of Windows to run LUA is difficult, frustrating, and expensive in time. A lot of smaller companies just don't have the time or knowledgeable resources to do it properly -- and the OS should be doing it for them. -- Devin L. Ganger Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3Sharp LLC Phone: 425.882.1032 x 109 15311 NE 90th Street Cell: 425.239.2575 Redmond, WA 98052 Fax: 425.702.8455 (e)Mail Insecurity: http://blogs.3sharp.com/blog/deving/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
