Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-26 Thread Raoul Nakhmanson-Kulish
Hello, joe! Anyway, you can specify an unlimited amount of non-proxied servers in autoconfiguration script. More, you may modify autoconfig rules as frequently as needed, or even do it automatically. Agreed. But if the idea is to protect your internal clients from your intranet web servers, the p

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-25 Thread Phillip R. Paradis
> >> Nice ...fresh from the oven too. This, if it works, should be a > >> 'extremely critical' update from Ms. > > > > Wouldn't such a tool be of limited utility, given that the > unpriviliged > > application's windows are on the same desktop as, and can > therefore send > > messages to, window

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-25 Thread Phillip R. Paradis
> >>Wouldn't such a tool be of limited utility, given that the > unpriviliged > >>application's windows are on the same desktop as, and can > therefore send > >>messages to, windows belonging to priviliged applications? > >> > >> > Correct. > Damn no ways out, this is flawed. > Is that new ?

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-25 Thread Gregh
- Original Message - From: "Phillip R. Paradis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'devis'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 6:51 PM Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox >&

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-25 Thread DanB UK
Hi, > Agreed. But if the idea is to protect your internal clients from your > intranet web servers, the proxy isn't doing much for you. Plus again, > someone can just configure their machine to not use the proxy as mentioned > previously. If the machines are available on the public intranet without

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-25 Thread joe
To: joe; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox Hello, joe! >>Autoconfig script may enumerate hosts which don't require a proxy. >>Usually there are a very few intranet servers in corporate network. > You should have prefixed "there

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-25 Thread devis
Phillip R. Paradis wrote: Wouldn't such a tool be of limited utility, given that the unpriviliged application's windows are on the same desktop as, and can therefore send messages to, windows belonging to priviliged applications? Correct. Damn no ways out, this is flawed. Is that new ? No. ___

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-25 Thread Phillip R. Paradis
> Nice ...fresh from the oven too. This, if it works, should be a > 'extremely critical' update from Ms. Wouldn't such a tool be of limited utility, given that the unpriviliged application's windows are on the same desktop as, and can therefore send messages to, windows belonging to priviliged ap

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-24 Thread Eric Paynter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Interesting tool to downsize rights when logged on as Administrator > >(Link may wrap) > >http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/securecode/columns/default.aspx?p >ull=/library/en-us/dncode/html/secure11152004.asp My favourite part is the sample directory used by Microsoft:

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-24 Thread devis
Excuse me, but i won't join and rejoice. Until, as i have posted on this list elsewhere, this item makes it further than the obscure devel / kb article but gets actually pulled as a critical security update and the 'linking/shortcut' procedure automatised for key components / applications in th

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-24 Thread joe
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of devis Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 6:45 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox >http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/securecode/columns/default.aspx?p >ull=/library/en-us/dncode/ht

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-24 Thread devis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Interesting tool to downsize rights when logged on as Administrator (Link may wrap) http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/securecode/columns/default.aspx?p ull=/library/en-us/dncode/html/secure11152004.asp Nice ...fresh from the

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-23 Thread Phillip R. Paradis
> either use sudo or su to do work as root, but Windows doesn't > make users > the admin by default *either*, unless you setup Fast User Switching > *during* the install. Windows XP doesn't allow that to be selected during installation. It is activated or not based on available system memory du

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-22 Thread devis
True goal is making as much money and influence as possible. Please read my previous posts on this list regarding that matter. This is why, Firefox being independant from this OS that carries 60 of its code base as being legacy code for older system hardware and The Mozilla Suite (and Firefox)

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-22 Thread Todd Towles
ROTECTED] On Behalf Of devis > Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 12:11 AM > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > Todd Towles wrote: > > >Windows doesn't tell you about the Admin account and makes > the defa

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-22 Thread Stefan Schatzl
devis wrote: Please run some unix or at least read about the unix permission system, and lets pray god this sheds some light in your mono cultured brains. Here are the relevant points: 1) Despite recent ameliorations of MS ( multi user finally, permissions ... ) and some effort at making the sy

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-22 Thread Vincent Archer
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:50:33AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Linux integration: Tools register themselves as optional add-ons to add new > or extended functionality. If the tool isn't there, all that happens is the > menu items *for that added function* end up greyed out or don't show up,

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-22 Thread Raoul Nakhmanson-Kulish
Hello, joe! Autoconfig script may enumerate hosts which don't require a proxy. Usually there are a very few intranet servers in corporate network. You should have prefixed "there are very few... " with one of two things 1. Relative to the internet... 2. In my experience... I said "usually". What'

Re: joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox )

2004-11-21 Thread john morris
Hey Guys this is reallly getting on to ur egoes. loyality pays royality at times.after all we all play with what pays. its high time we realise most of the vendor certifications are over rated and dnt guarantee the depth of knowledge. The HR people are a real piece of morons all over if atall certi

RE: joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox )

2004-11-21 Thread joe
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Georgi Guninski Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 3:01 PM To: Micheal Espinola Jr Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox ) On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:06:

Re: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox: Moved to Education

2004-11-21 Thread ASB
Ah, nostalgia... I have appropriately suppressed many of my memories in this regard. -ASB On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:22:24 -0500, joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of RandallM> The question above is answered IMHO as yes. Any one

Re: joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox )

2004-11-21 Thread ASB
That sentiment is particularly humorous coming from you... -ASB On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:01:12 +0200, Georgi Guninski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:06:10PM -0500, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > > Your accusations again joe's expertise and knowledge in this area are > > comp

Re: joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox )

2004-11-21 Thread Jason Coombs
ola Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox ) On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:06:10PM -0500, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > Your accusations again joe's expertise and knowledge in this area ar

Re: joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox )

2004-11-21 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 06:06:10PM -0500, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > Your accusations again joe's expertise and knowledge in this area are > completely unsubstantiated. > i have not seen any proofs of joe's expertise or knowledge - can you give some proofs? for me joe is just a chatterbox in be

RE: joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox )

2004-11-21 Thread joe
rinco Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox ) "joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] Don't get me started on MCSEs. As a whole I think they hurt Windows

RE: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox: Moved to Education

2004-11-21 Thread joe
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of RandallM> The question above is answered IMHO as yes. Any one who admins > or is a PC support person would have to agree. Come'on, if you > change their monitor they freak out that there folders are now > gone! Absolutely. One

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-21 Thread joe
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shoshannah Forbes Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 3:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox Well, Mac OSX is a fully consumer *nix. Can you say that Mac users tend to be " already knowledgeable wit

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-21 Thread joe
] Subject: RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 08:20, joe wrote: > I agree with your initial comment, they can both be changed. I also > agree they both do little. > > I don't agree that the hardcoding in the source does anything fo

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-21 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
joe wrote: Anyway, the base cause is a simple one, Windows is consumer based and *nix wasn't and really still isn't. Look at the market penetrations. *nix tends to have people already knowledgeable with its workings or people who WANT to learn the details using it, Well, Mac OSX is a fully consumer

Re: WAS: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox: Moved to Education

2004-11-21 Thread devis
Well Done. I did myself start to spend more time explaining what i before thought users couldn't comprehend and i have achieved surprising results. No, they won't suddenly change, but at least it has saved me from re doing the same thing over and over again. They do listen. They do not want pro

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-21 Thread devis
Todd Towles wrote: Windows doesn't tell you about the Admin account and makes the default user a Admin. That isn't best method as you know. RunAs is great..but that is only good once you create a normal user - and then delete your new default user. Or you log in in Administrator and take away

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread devis
Its not because it has a great market 'penetration' in the 'real' world that it isn't wrong. Not saying it was wrong before...but nowadays...we know better than DOS, don't we ? Lets not go into the argument NT isn't DOS etc etc ...please. So even if the world IT computing economy is standing on

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread devis
--Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of devis Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:10 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox 1) Despite recent ameliorations of MS ( multi user finally, permissions ... )

WAS: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox: Moved to Education

2004-11-20 Thread RandallM
__ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of devis Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:10 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox Do MS really think the users are stupid ? Do

Re: joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox )

2004-11-20 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Neither viewpoint is 100%. But, over-all I would have to agree with joe. MCSE's (in my experience) are typically not worth the credit [automatically] applied to them - not unless they have the experience to back it. That is of course true for any certification in any industry. MCSE's are easy t

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread Todd Towles
20, 2004 3:03 PM > To: Todd Towles > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > This is true. It will also play many other types of files > (with something like ffdshow) that WMP 9/10 can, although it > will do so with

joe the "expert" (was Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox )

2004-11-20 Thread Maurizio Trinco
"joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] Don't get me started on MCSEs. As a whole I think they hurt Windows far > more than any other thing. A bunch of people who feel they are experts in > Windows because they took a couple of tests that 10 year olds could memorize > and pass and yet still not be

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread Todd Towles
1:15 AM > To: Todd Towles > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > Dude, mplayer2 rulez!! I use it to play all sorts of things. > =) I'm glad they left it there... the newer MS media player > is just b

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread bkfsec
Vincent Archer wrote: Other apps flatly refuse to work with anything but IE. None of these are strictly "web applications" anymore - they are applications that use an UI processor, which happens to be the HTML processor as well. You see, this is precisely the problem. HTML processors in web brow

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread GuidoZ
> To: Todd Towles > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > > > Dude, mplayer2 rulez!! I use it to play all sorts of things. > > =) I'm glad they left it there... the newer MS media player > > i

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread Todd Towles
> Jeremy Davis > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > Are you able to change root's name in nix? Why not if the > answer is no? > (Things would break right? UID 0?) K

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 08:20, joe wrote: > I agree with your initial comment, they can both be changed. I also agree > they both do little. > > I don't agree that the hardcoding in the source does anything for you. Well, it *allows* you to change the ID of the superuser account to something else.

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread joe
ECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:14 PM To: Crotty, Edward Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:12:31 EST, "Crotty, Edward" said: > I'm not a Win based guy (troll?) - Un*x here - and ev

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread Antonio Vargas
On 15/11/2004, at 22:50, Stuart Fox ((DSL AK)) wrote: > Can the Firefox settings be controlled centrally? >Yes, and more flexible than IE versions zoo at user computers. Download >a Firefox ZIP (not Firefox_Setup_1.0.exe but Firefox 1.0.zip), unpack it >to R/O share on file server, edit JS config

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread joe
ECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Knobbe Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 10:42 PM To: Jeremy Davis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 20:40, Jeremy Davis wrote: > Are you able to change root's name in

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread joe
o be worthless before I assume it in person. -- Pro-Choice Let me choose if I even want a browser loaded thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of devis Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:10 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Fu

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread joe
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Davis Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 9:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox Are you able to change root's name in nix? Why not if the answer is no? (Things w

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread GuidoZ
Dude, mplayer2 rulez!! I use it to play all sorts of things. =) I'm glad they left it there... the newer MS media player is just bloat. Media Player Classic (that comes with RealAlternative and QuickTime Alternative) is another one of my favs. =D Yeah, not really anything to do with the topic, but

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 19 Nov 2004, at 18:40, Jeremy Davis wrote: Are you able to change root's name in nix? Sure. There's no reason why not. Why not if the answer is no? (Things would break right? UID 0?) Knowing the account name is two-thirds of the battle. A much better system is to have root's password unset (i.e.

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of devis Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:10 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox 1) Despite recent ameliorations of MS ( multi user finally, permissions ... ) and some effort at maki

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread joe
and they are working towards it. It is just going to take a good amount of work to do so. :o) joe -- Pro-Choice Let me choose if I even want a browser loaded thanks! -Original Message- From: john morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:32 PM To: joe Cc:

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 20:40, Jeremy Davis wrote: > Are you able to change root's name in nix? Why not if the answer is no? > (Things would break right? UID 0?) Knowing the account name is > two-thirds of the battle. > In windows it's fairly easy to change the admin name. > Not a professional here j

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread bkfsec
Andrew Farmer wrote: In fact, I'm not so sure it's even a component of Nautilus. Is this a recent change? Nope - it depends on how you install Nautilus, though. I know that on a number of RH systems I've had to configure lately, Mozilla is a dependancy (not firefox) because Nautilus seems to u

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread john morris
Dear Joe, So many out there use MS OS doesnt make it the best just as so many people go to McDonalds doesnt mean they make the best food -- (FROM LINKS TO LINKS WE ARE ALL LINKED) cheers. morris ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Char

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Jeremy Davis
Are you able to change root's name in nix? Why not if the answer is no? (Things would break right? UID 0?) Knowing the account name is two-thirds of the battle. In windows it's fairly easy to change the admin name. Not a professional here just curious... J On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:13:36 -0500, [EMA

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:12:31 EST, "Crotty, Edward" said: > I'm not a Win based guy (troll?) - Un*x here - and even I was offended by #1. > > There is such a thing as "runas" for Windows. Yes, but is *the main design* of the system "run as a mortal, and use the 'runas' for those things that need m

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 19 Nov 2004, at 08:35, Xavier Beaudouin wrote: Thanks. I thought that it had more meanings :-D Given that Firefox is integrated in Linux... It isn't. <...> Result : Firefox is not integrated in Linux, it is a third party software as /bin/bash or whatever that is given as a giveaway on

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Todd Towles
> Microsoft integration: You remove the application that plays > MPEG movies from a system that has never needed to play MPEG > movies, and never will need to - and your system won't boot anymore. Example - Anyone with XP, do a search for mplayer2.exe? What is this you ask? It is media player 6

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Georgi Guninski
dear j0e, all i wanted to say is that there are minorities in the real world, who don't load a browser or even graphics and they don't need anyone to "let" them. i believe these "minorities in real world" can do more things than the windoze lusers (whose main purpose is to be free shell providers

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Todd Towles
Crotty, Edward > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > I'm not a Win based guy (troll?) - Un*x here - and even I was > offended by #1. > > There is such a thing

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Crotty, Edward
ubject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox This message is primarily destined to all MS trolls, no matter their levels, and i can see so many in this list that i am happy to target a large audience. Please run some unix or at least read about the unix permission sy

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Vincent Archer
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:51:43AM -0500, joe wrote: > > Autoconfig script may enumerate hosts which don't require a proxy. > > Usually there are a very few intranet servers in corporate network. > > You should have prefixed "there are very few... " with one of two things > > 1. Relative to the

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread devis
Prevention is the best cure! - Original Message - From: "john morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox Firefox avoids several fundamental

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread joe
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:55 AM To: joe Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:22:33PM -0500, joe wrote: > Pro-Choice > Let me choose if I even want a browser loaded thanks! > what the fu

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Xavier Beaudouin
Could you please define "integrated"? English isn't my primary language... In:-D Thanks. I thought that it had more meanings :-D Given that Firefox is integrated in Linux... ¿Will I be able to use Linux wthout Firefox? Yes. Or, ¿is Firefox an operating system module? No this is a program li

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:57:31 +0100, Borja Marcos said: > Given that Firefox is integrated in Linux... ¿Will I be able to use > Linux wthout Firefox? Or, ¿is Firefox an operating system module? Being Hint: Linux is over 10 years old, and FireFox just came out. What did Linux do before FF

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread joe
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raoul Nakhmanson-Kulish Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:01 AM To: Esmond; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox Hello, Esmond! ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Kenneth Ng
In my opinion, there are two defintions for "integrated". For most people, it means "a" works with "b". For Microsoft, it means "a" can not work without "b". Firefox is definitelyl the former because I use it both under Linux and under Windows, and I'm trying to get it to work on my Zaurus. On

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Borja Marcos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could you please define "integrated"? English isn't my primary language... Integrated is similar to saying "is part of" or "united". For future reference (and more info), Google can also be extremely handy in such a case. Doing a Google search for:

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Raoul Nakhmanson-Kulish
Hello, Esmond! Offline folders work as well as roaming profiles do : nice fast networks and low overhead/beefy servers work well, odd things happen if you have impatient users with laptops, wireless etc. Sometimes its simply easier to have a scheduled task sync files to a local folder. This will al

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-19 Thread Raoul Nakhmanson-Kulish
Hello, Danny! This makes sense now, thanks Raoul! One more question: to make things more secure, do you have any tips on what settings to change in the firefox.js file? It's contains a lot of info. :) Very usable references here: http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/windows/docs/mozilla-pre-config.html

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-18 Thread GuidoZ
In case no one else helped you with this, allow me to try. =) > Could you please define "integrated"? English isn't my primary language... Integrated is similar to saying "is part of" or "united". For future reference (and more info), Google can also be extremely handy in such a case. Doing a Goo

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-18 Thread Raoul Nakhmanson-Kulish
Hello, Esmond! In my case, executable doesn't recide on workstation, it's placed on network file server. There are only shortcut to \\server\firefox\firefox.exe and user profile data on workstations. Fixed workstations can do this. Do you have Laptop users using offline folders? No, I haven't tried

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-18 Thread Borja Marcos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 However Mozilla in Linux is integrated at some level...so they are just the same as I.E. Could you please define "integrated"? English isn't my primary language... Borja. - --- Borja Marc

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-18 Thread Raoul Nakhmanson-Kulish
Hello, Danny! So when you run the Firefox setup/installer, do you direct the installation to \\server\firefox, and then once installed, you modify only the two files Stuart Fox mentions? Read my first message in this topic. I don't run Firefox installer at all, on both workstation and server. I dow

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-18 Thread Borja Marcos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why is it that Microsoft's code has less quality even though all code that's written is instantly audited? (Each line of code is checked before it's 'passed' in to the code tree.) Design, design and design. Also, design. Writing programs isn't a s

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-18 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:22:33PM -0500, joe wrote: > Pro-Choice > Let me choose if I even want a browser loaded thanks! > what the fuck is this? we can chose such things on our os, who must let you choose? -- where do you want bill gates to go today? __

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-17 Thread joe
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary E. > Miller > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:09 PM > To: Todd Towles > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > > > I suggest you re-read about t

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-17 Thread joe
ric Paynter Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox But high quality code that has a sound and well documented architecture can be more easily updated without messing up dependencies, whereas low quality code can b

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-17 Thread joe
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary E. Miller Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:09 PM To: Todd Towles Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox I suggest you re-read about the M$ anti-trust trial. This was

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-17 Thread joe
9 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox Unfortunatly, ms group policy do not handle mac, solaris, linux, ... only ms toys can be configured using this. ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: htt

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-17 Thread Gary E. Miller
] On Behalf Of Gary E. Miller > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:09 PM > To: Todd Towles > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > > > I suggest you re-read about the M$ anti-t

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-17 Thread joe
--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Towles Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:19 AM To: joe; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox Microsoft made a bold step by changing security in SP2. It was going to break stuff...and it

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Stuart Fox \(DSL AK\)
Title: RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox >Unfortunatly, ms group policy do not handle mac, solaris, linux, ... >only ms toys can be configured using this. I also think it is somewhat >new and will probably be old (why don't you use this miracle ms tool

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo Todd! On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Todd Towles wrote: > IE isn't part of the OS in Microsoft mind...but it is in the customers. I suggest you re-read about the M$ anti-trust trial. This was certainly NOT the M$ legal positiion. RGDS GARY -

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Eric Paynter
On Mon, November 15, 2004 11:25 am, joe said: >> Everytime a Firefox exploit comes out..there is already a fix... >> is that magic? No..it is good coding... > > Having a quick fix out is due to low complexity of issue and assisted by a > lack of dependencies so you have reduced time for patching an

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Todd Towles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 1:09 PM > To: Todd Towles > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yo Todd! > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Todd Towles w

Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread stephane nasdrovisky
Stuart Fox (DSL AK) wrote: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > Can the Firefox settings be controlled centrally? >Yes, and more flexible than IE versions zoo at user computers. Download >a Firefox ZIP (not Firefox_Setup_1.0.exe but Firefox 1.0.zip),

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Danny
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:33:26 -0600, Todd Towles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It doesn'tI was responding to another off-topic message. But they > again, how many messages on FD same on topic for more than 10 messages. > =) Fair enough > Who do you think posted the original "IE is just as safe

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Danny
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:07:56 -0600, Todd Towles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darwin and BSD...Darwin is the open source kernel that OS X uses...=) What does this have to do with IE and Firefox, again? ...D ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charte

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Todd Towles
n telling me it was OT..which is given. > -Original Message- > From: Danny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 10:28 AM > To: Todd Towles > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > O

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, JxT wrote: I believe it says "The BSD layer is based on the BSD kernel, primarily FreeBSD." It does not says the OSX kernel. peep developer.apple.com if you really don't believe me ;-) it's a tad more reliable then wikipedia For those interested in technical details, there's

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Todd Towles
t: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > I believe it says "The BSD layer is based on the BSD kernel, > primarily FreeBSD." It does not says the OSX kernel. > > peep developer.apple.com if you really don't believe me ;-) > it's a tad

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Todd Towles
er systems, but Microsoft has room for improvement to say the least. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 1:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosu

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread JxT
I believe it says "The BSD layer is based on the BSD kernel, primarily FreeBSD." It does not says the OSX kernel. peep developer.apple.com if you really don't believe me ;-) it's a tad more reliable then wikipedia -JxT On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:41:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Todd Towles
TED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 1:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:53:46PM -0600, JxT wrote: > >"The BSD layer is based on the BSD

RE: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-16 Thread Randal, Phil
rdshire Council Hereford, UK > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Ron DuFresne > Sent: 15 November 2004 20:02 > To: Gregory Gilliss > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as s

RE: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-15 Thread Stuart Fox \(DSL AK\)
Title: Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > Can the Firefox settings be controlled centrally?>Yes, and more flexible than IE versions zoo at user computers. Download>a Firefox ZIP (not Firefox_Setup_1.0.exe but Firefox 1.0.zip), unpack it>to R/O share on file

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-15 Thread Heikki Toivonen
bkfsec wrote: Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider wrote: Firefox is not intgrated to the OS, because it doesn't have an OS. Its just a trimmed Mozilla for windows.. Not exactly... it's a mozilla core in a native application, as opposed to an interpreted XUL front-end. It's a bit faster in both GNU/Linux a

Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox

2004-11-15 Thread Gregh
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:34 AM Subject: Re: [in] Re: [Full-Disclosure] IE is just as safe as FireFox > Quoting Raoul Nakhmanson-Kulish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello, Curt

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