halimtan <tan.halim@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jan 22, 8:23*am, "Sebastian G." <se...@seppig.de> wrote:
> > Even further, it seems like you're abusing MSIE as a webbrowser. Now that's
> > clearly a sign of total resignation.
>
> Dear Sebastian, evidently you know much more than I do. In what way am
> I abusing MSIE as a webbrowser?

Hi Tan,

Welcome alt.computer.security. I see you've met our resident
curmudgeon Sebastian G.

Sebatian is (unnecessarily rudely, in following his tech bully M.O.,
which allegedly is attributable to his tiny penis) making the point
that Internet Explorer is a rather dangerous web browser. With its
default configuration and inclusion of ActiveX technology, it has
quite a bit larger attack surface than other browsers that are
available (such as Opera or Mozilla Firefox).

He's also railing against a common prejudice in usenet these days
against those posting to usenet via Google Groups versus using an
actual NNTP news reading client (such as Mozilla Thunderbird--which is
also a mail client, or Forte Agent, or... whatever people like posting
news with these days). He deduced your posting method out of headers
available in the postings themselves.

It's left as an exercise to the reader what method of
computing/living/whatever that Sebastian actually approves of.

If we could get him to contribute without all the attitude, it'd be a
wonderful thing. But until then, I'll try to play good cop to his bad
cop and interpret.

Give Mozilla Firefox with the NoScript extension a try for a safer
browsing experience. Do it in a VMWare virtual machine running
something off the beaten path like OpenBSD for bonus points. The nice
thing about virtual machines is that they're quite tough fro malware
to break out of, and are easy to rollback to a known state if they
themselves get corrupted.

Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/