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Some welcome news on the browser front folks. Some of the major browser suppliers are looking at including "security wrappers" in their next releases. This is an attempt to protect users from malicious sites an drive-by infections.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06...load_defences/
Opera and FF are the players, and AVG are looking to put the same sort of technology into their security offering.
Not before time?
:)
They could more easily make browsers secure by taking
some technology out of their browsers. Why am I
the only one who understands this?
Hey rcg,
But the rest of us also understand that it is as feasible as uninventing thermonuclear weapons :DQuote:
Why am I the only one who understands this?
Sure, if you take all the bells and whistles out of browsers you would secure them, but would you like a 9,600 Baud dial-up modem to go with it?.............. I take it that you have a spare ISA slot?
Apart from most websites needing this crap to display properly; what about sites like You Tube, Face Book, My Space and a whole raft of other sites?
There is no way we could go back to the days of BBS.
Anyways it isn't just browsers. Operating systems and other applications suffer from the same issues. The basic rule is that the more complex you make things the more likely they are to go wrong and the more vulnerable they are likely to be.
If you think about it, DOS is a secure operating system compared to Windows. Single user, single task, and doesn't start a heap of services when you boot up :D
Why would you design a web browser to allow remote
sites to alter important Operating System files, and then,
as an afterthought, add another layer of software to
prevent it from happening? Pure genius.
Yeah, I think I have an ISA slot in the back of my head.
:cool:
That's strange: I thought it was a RS-232Quote:
Yeah, I think I have an ISA slot in the back of my head.
Amen! Spent last evening with an older friend getting her oriented onQuote:
Originally Posted by rcgreen
her new Vista-powered laptop. Criminy, IE in protected mode is outright
painful. We had a dickens of a time just using her ISP's webmail, even
after I added that site to the trusted zone. I need to put her in FF. I
love the fact Vista's more secure. But it's a nightmare to use, especially
for less tech-savvy users.
It's privilege levels are always going to be at ring 3. And in order to install the drivers for that sort of thing you'll need administrator privileges anyway.Quote:
Why would you design a web browser to allow remote
sites to alter important Operating System files
It reminds me of something I read the other day about our Department of Revenue & Customs (equivalent of the IRS). Apparently in the last couple of years they have fired over 600 people for looking at personal information they should not have done.
This is not a question of an insecure system........... the little scumbags are perfectly entitled and empowered to look at these records. The issue is that they are abusing their empowerment. They should only look if required to do so as part of their job, and instructed by their superiors, not out of personal curiosity, and potential malicious intent.