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RE: Hacked!
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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.
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...
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...).
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Hacked! - by Pyroteq on 09-16-2004 at 09:45 AM
RE: Hacked! - by Sunshine on 09-16-2004 at 12:15 PM
RE: Hacked! - by saralk on 09-16-2004 at 12:44 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lhunath on 09-17-2004 at 12:13 PM
RE: Hacked! - by BEWARE^^ on 09-17-2004 at 12:38 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lhunath on 09-17-2004 at 02:49 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lopardo on 09-17-2004 at 03:39 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lhunath on 09-17-2004 at 05:02 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lopardo on 09-17-2004 at 05:17 PM
RE: Hacked! - by WDZ on 09-17-2004 at 05:57 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lhunath on 09-17-2004 at 06:46 PM
RE: Hacked! - by RebelSean on 09-17-2004 at 06:50 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lhunath on 09-17-2004 at 06:57 PM
RE: Hacked! - by saralk on 09-17-2004 at 07:14 PM
RE: RE: Hacked! - by lopardo on 09-17-2004 at 07:14 PM
RE: RE: RE: Hacked! - by Vantage on 09-17-2004 at 10:19 PM
RE: Hacked! - by WDZ on 09-17-2004 at 07:24 PM
RE: Hacked! - by CookieRevised on 09-17-2004 at 07:30 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lhunath on 09-17-2004 at 08:25 PM
RE: Hacked! - by saralk on 09-17-2004 at 08:37 PM
RE: Hacked! - by mad_onion on 09-17-2004 at 09:25 PM
RE: Hacked! - by RebelSean on 09-17-2004 at 09:39 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lopardo on 09-17-2004 at 09:46 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lopardo on 09-17-2004 at 10:25 PM
RE: Hacked! - by Vantage on 09-17-2004 at 10:30 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lhunath on 09-17-2004 at 11:33 PM
RE: Hacked! - by Shadow D on 09-17-2004 at 11:33 PM
RE: Hacked! - by Plik on 09-17-2004 at 11:41 PM
RE: Hacked! - by CookieRevised on 09-17-2004 at 11:51 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lopardo on 09-17-2004 at 11:54 PM
RE: Hacked! - by lhunath on 09-18-2004 at 08:00 AM
RE: Hacked! - by user2319 on 11-05-2004 at 07:31 PM
RE: Hacked! - by Dane on 11-05-2004 at 07:48 PM


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