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Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

  • From: william(at)elan.net
  • Date: Mon Jul 12 08:55:02 2004

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, William Warren wrote:

> coolwebsearch has become more and more sneaky..so bad that 
> development of cws shredder has been abandoned by its 
> developer....Either serious lock down you ie(which with CWS is 
> not going to help) or use something other than ie.

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8998
"Jun 28 2004 7:38AM

 US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to 
 ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest 
 security vulnerability in the software was exposed"
    
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622344,00.asp
"July 12, 2004 

 In the wake of last week's revelation of a security hole in Mozilla that 
 allows the execution of arbitrary programs on the client system a 
 philosophical debate has emerged: Is this a bug in Mozilla or a bug in 
 Windows?"

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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