Re: Internet Explorer has been hijacked by "About:Blank"

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:19:27 -0500

Steve in NC wrote:
> It would seem that the solution is obvious. Why not simply switch to
> a less vulnerable, less bug-riddled browser and abandon IE to the
> hackers it hosts so readily and well?

Because you cannot abandon it completely and although there are "less
vulnerable" browsers out there, they have their issues as well. I have not
found one browser that blocks all popups or all spyware/adware/malware yet -
nor have I found one that can display as many pages as Internet Explorer (as
(unfortunately) many people design around it), nor have any been lacking in
vulnerabilities. As soon as everyone decides on one - that will be the one
getting attacked and showing its true vulnerabilities.

In any case - you suggest it, but you suggested no concrete alternative...
In your ranting would it have been so hard to add:

Try Mozilla Firefox. 

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