Re: [school-discuss] Ditching IE?

[Thomas Templin <lists@gnuwhv.de>]

On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:14, Darryl Caldwell wrote:
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-07-07-020-26-OS-DT-SW
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> Is anyong on this list ditching IE in their school?
As an argument not using IE, CERT recommended to use an other browser than IE.
And security should be an argument at schools too.

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878
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Use a different web browser 

There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to 
the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type 
determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these 
vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing 
untrusted sites. Such a decision may, however, reduce the functionality of 
sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML, VBScript, and ActiveX. 
Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows 
system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or 
the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML). 
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Bye,
Thomas