Various - Dec 19, 2004

December 19, 2004 at 12:06 AM · Filed under Misc

Last post of the year folks, so I couldn’t resist talking about a lot of news.

First off, the New York Times is running a report on Mozilla’s Firefox browser in the wake of the recent 2-page Firefox ad in the NY Times. It’s time to stop using IE people. Firefox is at 1.0 or you can use the Mozilla suite. CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team) recommends dumping IE. If you have the bandwidth, check out this video of a machine being infected with 16 different pieces of Spyware by visting 1 web page. 1 web page.

NY Times Report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/business/yourmoney/19digi.html
Firefox Ad: http://www.mozilla.org/images/nyt_ad_large_2004.png
Get Firefox: http://getfirefox.com
Mozilla Suite: http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
CERT: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/28/cert_ditch_explorer/
Spyware Infection video: http://www.benedelman.org/news/111804-1.html

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