On 06/10/2013 05:20 PM, Juan Wei wrote:
Todd has written on 6/10/2013 4:09 PM:
On 06/10/2013 12:59 PM, Juan Wei wrote:
Todd has written on 6/10/2013 3:53 PM:

Another good fence is to not use Internet Explorer or anything that uses
it for its rendering engine (Outlook, etc.)

Even IE10???

Thanks.


Don't use IE period.

Why not?

Arguably, it is responsible for 85% of the virus infections out there.
You can always google IE and security issues.

I did.

tomshardware.com said, "NSS Labs has released a new edition of its
security report that evaluates a browser's ability to block socially
engineered malware.

"The results reflect the ranking of the previously released report in
August of 2011 and found Internet Explorer (version 10) to be the safest
browser in this discipline under Windows 8. NSS Labs said that IE10
blocked 99.1 percent of the malware it was exposed to (virtually
dead-even with the 99.2 percent result from August of last year), but
Chrome improved its 13.2 percent result to 70.4 percent due to the
integration of enhanced file-based reputation screening. "

sitepont.com said, "Microsoft do not have a reputation for producing
secure software but the company is working hard to rectify that.
Internet Explorer is as good — if not better — than its competitors. "




The key words to look at is "socially engineered malware". That
is a tiny part of the problem. Where IE is horrible is when you
log into an infected web site with IE and get instantly clobbered.

"socially engineered malware" is the type that tricks you into
installing the software for them.