LAVASOFT?!

AGAIN?

Oh no.

 

Did I mention LAVASOFT is the best thing since sliced white bread?

 

Well I'm proud of you for giving it a go. To each his own. Unfortunately many folks are not as lucky as your with IE...

 

We use IE at work and I don't have any problems here...then again, it's hard to get much past our firewalls. There are a few sites that are blocked by my company, but I guess it's for our own good.

 

I have used IE since IE Version 1 - I have had Zero problems with search bars or malware - Why ? Cause Im careful - AND because I dont surf **** sites and Warez sites.

Its JUST like the GUN control argument. Browsers dont kill PC's people kill PC's - We need Click control .....

I made $1000 this week alone fixing PC's for people who have no click control

If you see a window like this pop up .

DONT click yes - 9 times out of 10 its BS... The one in this example is Macromedia which is ok BUT 9 times out of 10 its BAD

XP service Pack 2 is supposed to help this some....

Just my $0.02
Hope it helps.
Doug

 

Tuff - large corporations use niftly little devices called 'Proxies'. THis is basically what happens (with a good proxy appliance):

1. Users requests web site.
2. Proxy snatches request (sometimes w/o user knowledge) and checks it against a DB of web sites, if its on the 'allow' list, then the proxy goes and gets the data.
3. The proxy checks the HTML code and removes the nasty stuff or whatever the policy states
4. The proxy then serves the data to the client and *POOF* you get a web site that is all content and no nasties.

Silver is right on - with some knowledge IE can be safe... but joe user doesn't understand this, and gets spyware/malware up the ying-yang until their PC grinds to a halt.

The bummer to what Silver posted about the pop-up windows is that by default IE can install items WITHOUT your consent. D'oh! Another reason I despise IE....

So you see, using IE at work is usually safe, as the IT gurus have put things in place to protect thier network & PCs...

Firewalls are useless against most stuff... but that's a whole different lesson!

 

Post above:

good info

 

Actually fewer and fewer companies are using proxies these days.. Its old technology.

More often these days corporate PCs are protected against malware etc by mandated automatically updated antivirus, by user polices that prevent people from installing Kazaa, from user policies that auotmatically install windows updates, that automatically update and reset IE security, by Email systems that automatically scan for and dump incoming spam and viruses. And finally Hardware Firewalls amd smart switches. ALL those things are required to help keep people safe from the bad things that are on the net.

IE can if misconfigured or not updated can allow BAD software to be installed on a PC - BUT all browsers have the same ability.

Ill go back to my earlier statement. I have been using IE for about 10 years and dont have the issues that are mentioned here. Its similar to people who spend lots of time driving and parking thier trucks in run down Downtown areas. They get more flat tires, more tickets, more breakins, more door dings etc etc.... Its not the trucks fault that all that happened - its the driver.

Stay off the **** sites and he warez sites and stop clicking on random too good to be true links and you wont have these issues.

Dont forwad stupid jokes to everyone in your address book - Even if its a great Joke - the process teaches people to open unkown unexpected attachments

Browsers dont kill PC's People Kill PC's

Doug

 

Gotta disagree with you on that one. Proxy-like appliances are more powerful than ever before, and are a very cost-effective way for the enterpise to mangage & monitor users and bandwidth from a single point. You'll see more and more companies implement content management solutions as time goes on. They may not call them proxies anymore, but the concept is still the same. Seperate users from the internet, and filter at the gateway, not the desktop. Its the only way to go in an enterprise level network. But I could be wrong...

 

Either we are talking about proxies or were not .....

If you are talking about monitoring users and firing them for going to the woring places then I agree the companies that fire people for inappropriate use MOST often use proxy logs to do that - However the Old school proxies are falling off in popularity.