“Over the past several months, considerable attention has been paid to the security problems surrounding Microsoft’s Internet Explorer by the general news media and information technology departments in higher education. The Computer Emergency and Response Team, Carnegie Mellon University’s federally funded research group formed to deal with security issues on the Internet, has issued numerous vulnerability alerts and recommends that users switch to a different Web browser,” Penn State Live reports.
As a result, Penn State’s Information Technology Services (ITS) is urging that the University computing community use standards-based Web browsers other than Internet Explorer to help minimize exposure to attacks that occur through browser vulnerabilities. Web browser options include Firefox, one of several alternatives available for Windows, MAC [sic] and other operating systems. It works with all Web-based applications used at Penn State: ANGEL, eLion, AIS applications, etc., and is well-supported by the ITS Help Desks. Other viable Web browsers include Mozilla, Netscape Communicator and Opera, which can be found at the ITS downloads site at https://downloads.its.psu.edu/ on the Web. The Safari Web browser for Apple computers is available at http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
ITS has made this recommendation because the threats are real and alternatives exist to mitigate Web browser vulnerabilities. All of the recommended alternative Web browsers easily can import bookmarks and most other settings that had been used in Internet Explorer. To see other important actions that can be taken to ensure safer computing, visit http://its.psu.edu/takecontrol/
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MacDailyNews Note: “MAC” stands for “Media Access Control.” “Mac” is short for Apple “Macintosh.”
we are witness to history folks. microsoft has been in a steady decline. enjoy the ride.
Maaaaaaaaaaa, them peoples are pickun on me.
It’s all your fault … ever since Microsoft Bob.
Microsoft Bob? Isn’t that what Ball-more did to Bill Gates in order to get the job in the first place? Bwahahahahah!!!!
Yes, I remember Bob. Talk about junk.
What’s really funny is Gates’s wife was the one in charge of Bob.
What people forget is that the Windows operating system still uses ‘explorer’ for its “windows”. The solution to the problem is only half done when you switch browsers.
You go to get rid of them entirely to be safe.
And thus it begins… Safari will get cremed by Firefox.
Apple should have gone with Gecko when they were looking for an opensource browser engine.
Nah man…..anyone who gets a new mac is going to try safari and love it. It’s a damn fine browser.
Jeff: For many uses/users Safari is better than Firefox, because Safari is a Cocoa app. That means better integration with other Cocoa apps using Services. For my suite of apps, Safari is much more powerful than Firefox.
Correct me if I am wrong,
Wasn’t Penn state the one who gave all their students Napster?? Doesn’t the Napster service require Windows Media Player?? Doesn’t WMP require IE in order to access the WEB??
If this train of thought is correct, somebody is getting screwed.
Gecko vs KHTML != Firefox vs Safari.
Apple built Safari on KHTML from KDE, Khtml is very fast, lightweight rendering engine. It’s not quite finished yet(hence the render bugs) but it is a good deal faster than Gecko.
Khtml is the more elegant solution so of course Apple went with it.
This kind of stuff/news needs to get out there to the people. Not just mentioned here in this website. TV, radio, newspapers. Especialy in countries like, well, here in Oz for a start. People are oblivious to the world around them. As long as they have their Aussie Idol or the Simpsons, everyones happy. Good way to control the masses heh.
Just a visualization of the current trend –
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