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Internet Explorer Clipboard security threat PDF Print E-mail
Written by Sledgstone   
Sunday, 09 April 2006

Sledgstone
September 22nd, 2005, 07:36 PM
http://googlemyway.com/clipboard/

omg, its hard to believe IE is set by default to allow this..

Dubird
September 22nd, 2005, 07:49 PM
doesn't surprise me.....you should use Firefox instead...only keep IE around for testing purposes.....

Eppy
September 22nd, 2005, 07:57 PM
well nothing really showed up for me since i havent even used IE in well over a year or 2

Sledgstone
September 22nd, 2005, 08:06 PM
doesn't surprise me.....you should use Firefox instead...only keep IE around for testing purposes.....

yep, i installed firefox on all our computers last week. i haven't used IE for over 4 days. :happy:

Inuyasha88
September 22nd, 2005, 08:22 PM
I have used firefox on my comp since it first came out.

DeathscytheX
September 25th, 2005, 10:11 PM
IE blows

Inuyasha88
September 26th, 2005, 08:27 PM
IE blows Micro$haft

gokuDX7
September 28th, 2005, 02:48 AM
lol That’s not new. Happens in firefox also if you write the php script different. IE. Also uses AutoComplete by def. If you don’t know what AutoComplete is then Ill explain it a bit better. When you go to a site or forum that asks for your log in username and password such as this forum. When you type it in and click login or submit IE pops up a message box that asks would you like to save your current entries for later use? If you click yes it saves the username and password to a file in your temp folder. This is somewhat scary if you haven’t disabled it yet since it does it automatically. Some people that Iv cleaned computers for don’t know much about it and I find well over 20,000 username and passwords for sites, bank accounts, e-bay, forums, AIM and whatnot. So if you have IE you should look up AutoComplete and shut it off also.



Not to bash IE so much since I use it over anything else due to the fact that its one of the safest Web browsers if you know how to use it and config it the right way. Firefox has its good points and bad..But as of lately there have been far to many code issues to keep up with. Cnet and a few other computer news sites have posted just how much users overlook Firefox. It now has more loopholes and vulnerabilities then IE does and that’s a scary fact not too many people know about since some feel that it’s the best or most secure and there shouldn’t be anything else needed to view the web. I find it sad people don’t read sites anymore or at least take into consideration that Open source doesn’t necessarily mean "safest".



Anyway it just all matters on how you use what you have and if you update it enough.

 
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