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Re: Microsoft Firewall vs ???? Volker Birk 04-01-2008
Posted by Volker Birk on April 1, 2008, 12:36 am
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> IE7 on Vista runs in protected mode and is the most secure browser there
> is because of it.

Unless IE stops supporting ActiveX and thus supporting manipulating
arbitrary COM objects, it's a security nightmare and not "the most
secure browser".

ActiveX is a design flaw, and never can be fixed.

Yours,
VB.
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Posted by Rat River Cemetary on April 1, 2008, 6:23 am
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Volker Birk wrote:

> Unless IE stops supporting ActiveX and thus supporting manipulating
> arbitrary COM objects, it's a security nightmare and not "the most
> secure browser".
>
> ActiveX is a design flaw, and never can be fixed.
>
> Yours,
> VB.

I use FF with noscipt but nothing can compromise the OS by running IE7
because it runs in protected memory space.

Posted by Sebastian G. on April 1, 2008, 6:48 am
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Rat River Cemetary wrote:


> I use FF with noscipt but nothing can compromise the OS by running IE7
> because it runs in protected memory space.


Unless you simply break out of it, which is trivial.

Posted by Volker Birk on April 1, 2008, 7:25 am
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> Volker Birk wrote:
>> Unless IE stops supporting ActiveX and thus supporting manipulating
>> arbitrary COM objects, it's a security nightmare and not "the most
>> secure browser".
>> ActiveX is a design flaw, and never can be fixed.
> I use FF with noscipt but nothing can compromise the OS by running IE7
> because it runs in protected memory space.

That's wrong.

COM offers the possibility for IPC (DCOM, COM+).

Yours,
VB.
--
The file name of an indirect node file is the string "iNode" immediately
followed by the link reference converted to decimal text, with no leading
zeroes. For example, an indirect node file with link reference 123 would
have the name "iNode123". - HFS Plus Volume Format, MacOS X

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