I've been trying, when appropriate, to get people to move away from Internet Explorer (just doing my part for homeland security.) So I guess I should stick with the follow through. To wit: there is a bug in Mozilla (and thus in Firefox) when run on Windows 2000 or Windows XP that can allow for remote execution of code. This bug has already been patched, so all you need to do is update your software to the latest version. For Firefox that would be 0.92. Here's the mozilla page with complete details on the vulnerability and what you need to do.
Looks like I had two alternatives: download the patch and then look to see it's there (it is), or download Firefox 0.9.2. Since I just installed 0.9 a few days ago, I took the lazy way and just installed the patch. Thanks for the info.
Went with the new version. Has anyone using IE ever tried to remove it? It doesn't have an uninstall feature and it doesn't show up on my add/remove programs list.
Turns out it is possible to remove IE, but the procedure is not for the faint of heart. I'm not recommending it, but for the record, here is how to do it.
I brought two old hard drives with me, maybe I'll try it on one of those if I get too bored this winter.
I'm not sure you can remove it. But the security holes all involve using it to browse, so as long as you aren't using it you should be fine.
(I don't really know how the story came out but much of the Microsoft trial was about this question - with Microsoft arguing that it was technically impossible for them to remove the browser from the OS.)
Oh, yeah, I seem to remember that. I just wanted to get rid of it because guests tend to recognize the e icon and use it to browse. I guess I can at least delete the icons. Or, let's see if I can...
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- jim 7-09-2004 5:19 pm
Looks like I had two alternatives: download the patch and then look to see it's there (it is), or download Firefox 0.9.2. Since I just installed 0.9 a few days ago, I took the lazy way and just installed the patch. Thanks for the info.
- tom moody 7-09-2004 11:42 pm [add a comment]
Went with the new version. Has anyone using IE ever tried to remove it? It doesn't have an uninstall feature and it doesn't show up on my add/remove programs list.
- jimlouis 7-12-2004 3:53 pm [add a comment]
Turns out it is possible to remove IE, but the procedure is not for the faint of heart. I'm not recommending it, but for the record, here is how to do it.
- jim 7-29-2004 7:53 pm [add a comment]
I brought two old hard drives with me, maybe I'll try it on one of those if I get too bored this winter.
- jimlouis 7-29-2004 9:58 pm [add a comment]
I'm not sure you can remove it. But the security holes all involve using it to browse, so as long as you aren't using it you should be fine.
(I don't really know how the story came out but much of the Microsoft trial was about this question - with Microsoft arguing that it was technically impossible for them to remove the browser from the OS.)
- jim 7-12-2004 4:45 pm [add a comment]
Oh, yeah, I seem to remember that. I just wanted to get rid of it because guests tend to recognize the e icon and use it to browse. I guess I can at least delete the icons. Or, let's see if I can...
- jimlouis 7-12-2004 5:17 pm [add a comment]