Shoutbox

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Originally posted by lopardo
How does Internet Explorer invite hackers? Sorry, but that's not correct, it may have some vulnerabilities, but it's not like that. I personally prefer Firefox though.

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For one, worms scan for vulnorabilities, webservers can find your IP & User Agent, therefore, know whether you have IE, and when you do, know who to attack. Or just automatically install trojans which are then easily picked up by scanners.
Or just ad/spyware, which are, technically, you being hacked as well.

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Originally posted by lopardo
Then don't use Windows at all...

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There's a very clear diffrence between not trusting something, and not using it lopardo, it's not because I do not trust Microsoft Windows, that I need to not use it at all. The fact that I don't trust Microsoft products, means that I will take precausions to protect myself against their possible failure, and take steps to easily recover when they do.
Btw, I didn't say that others are all good, I said that Microsoft products aren't to be trusted (generally), meaning, exactly what the sentence says, that they may fail you where you would expect them not to. (Like after you just installed all security patches available...).