Those apps have to be very widely used, so something one can find on every PC.īy that now it seems that java is the most attacked target, followed by adobe readers for pdf and flash. However since browsers get lot of attention also from the authors, today mostly other non MS apps are major targets of attack. In a lecture end of november I was told, uncorrected security holes in browsers are present, namely IE8 9, FF 30, Crome 50, Safari 18.īut also since it is very difficult to attack the w7 with IE running on it, it is not relevantly exploited.īrowsers are statistically the component being connected to net most time, so any security issues are here more serious or the probability to be exploited is higher then with other apps. making IE an interesting Portable App that web dessigners would surelly love although they hate the product itself.īut collect my infos just from some net reading and recently I was attending some IT security lectures of some gov services. It's not that I love it, it's just that some people love it or don't know of any other browser. Specially IE, since I don't use it and, therefore I would prefere justo to keep a bunch of version of this browsers for testing purposes. This makes it cahotic to keep track on which browser your website will show up correctlly. There ar two ways I can think of in order to keep several versions of IE at hand:ġ) One virtual machine per version (A waste of space and time)įirefox alerts the user about an update, however, IE users can be using a wide range of versions depending on their operating system. IE is one of those browsers that step away from W3C, so it is *REALLY* nice to have several IE versions at hand in order to double check your work.

However, sometimes web dessigns *MUST* be checked for browser compatibility. I find much more usefull to have Firefox installed on my system.

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