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Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Tue Jul 13 17:13:35 2004 
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:37:37 EDT, "Hannigan, Martin" <[email protected]>  said:
alt with at the browser level
> in MS Security Bulletin MS03-011.
> 
> I have a hard time blaming MS for everything since in most cases
> of these things they do react. How do they force the users to update?
> Could they implement a switch that says "no update, no working browser"?
> At least for IE?
> 
> Scob was dealt with via the hammer, this could be too.

At some point, one needs to say "I've pounded enough nails, it's time to
look at alternate fasteners..."

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