’)December’s “Operation Aurora” cyber attack from China, which Google disclosed last week, has prompted French and German to recommend against the use of Internet Explorer, at least until a patch is released to address the vulnerability.
This is a great move considering the security risk Microsoft’s Internet Explorer creates. Similar action may be taken against other Microsoft products as well. How does this happen? Microsoft provided the window through which the Chinese hackers crawled through.
“This afternoon, Microsoft issued Security Advisory 979352 to help customers mitigate a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The company has determined that Internet Explorer was one of the vectors used in targeted and sophisticated attacks targeted against Google and other corporate networks.”
This is a great BANG for Microsoft. It’s a fact that Internet explorer lost its popularity in market. The internet browser battle kicked off for a long time. Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are more user friendly and load web pages much faster. Besides, tonnes of web developers facing hard time in tweaking their web pages to suite the Internet Explorer.
So, can Internet Explorer can still leads the browser industry after this big BANG? Will you support Internet Explorer?
21 responses so far ↓
1 Himmat // Jan 20, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Hey shengfatt!
I use IE 8.0 but I have to agree that Mozilla is way better. Don’t quite like Google Chrome though.
This is a major setback for Misrosoft to say the least.
2 F I T // Jan 20, 2010 at 3:50 pm
It’s been a long time I’m not using IE..too much complication for my laptop..just forget it at all..hehe
3 kRaZy // Jan 20, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Lol, I don’t use Internet Explorer. I use Mozilla and Chrome =)
4 nebular // Jan 20, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Useful info and thanks for the alert…….
5 kumfye // Jan 20, 2010 at 5:10 pm
i still using IE leh…not stable one…fml!!!
6 braincellkilla // Jan 20, 2010 at 5:34 pm
yeah, i’ve been using Firefox for quite some time now… and Opera for mobile browsing…
let’s see if Google can live without the Chinese market… if they ever decide to leave!
7 elyana // Jan 20, 2010 at 5:40 pm
shengfatt!
hye! thanks for nang my entry. i nang u d~
im not using IE d, hate it. love mozilla .ki3x.
x sedar diri dulu pakai IE juga.
thanks to IE for last time, but im with mozilla now~
visit me again ya .peace~
8 admin // Jan 20, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Kumfye > act fast change now!
9 Apple Tan // Jan 20, 2010 at 7:29 pm
IE sucks, nvr like to use it.
Safer n nicer.
I’m proud to say I’m one of the Mozilla Firefox users!
10 supia // Jan 20, 2010 at 10:12 pm
I have abandon IE for so long, I abandon Mozilla also. It crashed too much. Use Google Chrome. I am liking it. I can choose my own skin on the browser. Its cute. I am also using Opera which is much stable. Opera is good but not many ppl know about it and use it.
11 Jan // Jan 20, 2010 at 10:34 pm
I use IE 8. But I do have Mozilla. Hmm. Maybe I should start using Mozilla.
12 admin // Jan 20, 2010 at 11:28 pm
supia > i knew about opera but its a long time ago…
13 aidi-safuan // Jan 20, 2010 at 11:45 pm
haha…. firefox is the best!
14 cr3ap // Jan 21, 2010 at 1:21 am
Using Google Chrome now. Seems quite a lot of problems with IE. Not sure why.
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Regards from cr3ap
15 Emeryn // Jan 21, 2010 at 8:21 am
I still uses both IE and modzilla. I heard Opera not bad.
16 sharinginfoz // Jan 21, 2010 at 9:36 am
all this while i am using firefox….
17 maestro // Jan 21, 2010 at 11:14 am
i’m using firefox and opera. coz both are faster!
and people always easily put virus in ie..
18 isabellmiao // Jan 21, 2010 at 12:10 pm
I still think that Chrome is still the best. Faster than Mozilla.
19 Vic // Jan 21, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Hi! I rather use Google Chrome or Firefox. Both are faster and definitely better than IE.
20 nikel // Jan 21, 2010 at 12:40 pm
mozila supporter…faster browers
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from Nikel Khor
21 Keat // Jan 21, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Thanks for sharing. I’ve anti-IE for more than 5 years already. I’ve done a double-blind comparison using FireFox and IE, visiting the same site, and scan the computer using the same antispyware. From what I observed was that FireFox with no extension is the same as IE. Whereas FireFox with extension will give a much secure protection to your computer. It was 4 years ago. I haven’t try this out comparing FireFox and Chrome. Will try it when I have the time.
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