Master-Of-Fungus-Foo-D wrote:
Firefox is way beter than IE! Less ads, less spyware, most viruses makers, i think, target IE....
(they make pretty good games... iguess thw wotrld would stop if ms just suddenly vanished too
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That's interesting... wait until firefox gets more users and attention...
Think about it: you make viruses, who will you target to make the most damage? The one with only +/- 10% of market share or the one with the most users? Linux that has hundred different versions and kernel versions, Mac or Windows? You won't waste your time making something to attack a minimal percentage of users, virus makers think big, though big is a big word for what they do...
As lizardkid said, if you know about security and don't click OK everytime you see a messagebox just to see it disappear...
Many users don't even know there is a "tools->options" dialog box to disable "potentially dangerous" settings and then complain they get viruses/spyware and say: "i didn't do anything"...exactly, even setting options to a safer level. Many of these are set in place to be commonly used by "good" programmers. It's sure, if you decide to go on wa**z sites with IE, it's calling for troubles. But most users of IE are mr.everybody and aunt jemima who don't know a thing about computers, don't got search for the latest cr**ks of some cool program they want to tryout and use what comes bundled, that's why those "potentially risky" settings are set as they are. Instead of bitching, why peopleare not proposing a "security settings wizard" for beginners to MS? As yuou may know, there two (or more) ways to look at a "problem":
- only bitch and don't propose solutions
- propose solutions to solve it.
Instead of bitching, why not proposing a "security settings wizard" for beginners to MS? You know they can be contacted and are waiting for feedback. MS is one of the companies that are making all the efforts to try and stop all the mess caused by spywares and viruses. Knew that?
Firefox better than IE? ok, learn to design webpage, not with a visual editor, but with code, then come back and tell that again. You'll make sure 10% users can see your page display correctly and lose the other part because the layout is all fuc** up? yeah... right.
To be honest, i use both, each for it's own use: IE for common sites and boards, Firefox when i'm not sure about the site. But most of all, i used my brain when surfing the web, and i never got any spyware/viruses install from Internet yet. (touching wood)
Some people say Linux will come strong someday, yeah, it makes me laugh to hear that... try to install a single program to 5 different computers with different linux distributions without a glitch...
I installed redhat 2 years ago and subscribed to the "security bulletin". Received security holes warnings almost every 5 days to update this or that because some users could and blablabla... safer than windows?
And... think about it, where would Internet/computers be if MS didn't show up at all? They brought it to everyone and demistified this world. I could go on and on about how Microsoft is not an "evil" company as many users say, but i'll get incoherent answers with poor argumentations on how i'm wrong. Navigate in MS site and read about what they do for the computer world, which otehr company can say they do as much?
No comment...
, I got no problems with microsoft, and indeed there is nothing wrong with the software...
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