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How Secure Is Internet Explorer? | |
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| Time: 08:40 EST/13:40 GMT | News Source: PC World | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser has lost market share to worthy competitors over the last few years, it is still the market leader and remains the browser to beat. IE has many significant security features and enterprise options that cannot be easily discounted. Unfortunately for its many users, IE's dominance and complexity have made it the browser to attack. IE is also the only browser natively vulnerable to ActiveX control exploits. | ||
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| #1 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at 2/1/2009 11:31:33 AM |
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On Windows Vista and soon, Windows 7, IE is extremely secure. No other browser features as many layers of protection - both in the context of security features (barriers) and convenience (managing those barriers).
Run it on Vista and or Windows 7 and you'll have the safest browsing experience available. Do not kid youself or suspend disbelief that Moz/FF, or Chrome/Safari (Webkit) are more secure. They are not - not by a very wide margin. If some lay person mentions ActiveX and IE in the context of security - counter with the truth - that ActiveX (COM) is only one form of Remote Methoding - others are used, too and all day in other browsers - Java RMI, CORBA, FLASH Remoting are examples - EXCEPT in IE's case, there strong handlers which do not allow any form of COM/Remote Method Invocation to be executed without the user's concent. Period. End of Story! I would not stake my reputation, or that of my company if I were to conclude differently. |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 2/2/2009 8:50:43 AM |
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What did Shakespeare say in Hamlet, something along the lines of "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
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