Banner ads carried viruses
That is a new one, and might be another reason to switch to Firefox. Apparently, banner ads carried by The Register, NBC Universal, ATOM Shockwave, The Golf Channel and A&E Networks were affected by a virus last Saturday.
It is not quite clear how it worked but apparently, the virus was downloaded when visistors using Internet Explorer on a non-updated Windows computer were visiting the respective sites.
That is a new one for the Internet world, really.
There is an article about the background of Firefox, and one Prof. Mendel Rosenblum in the Computer Science Department is quoted as saying independently from this virus incidence):
"Browser innovation at Microsoft proceeded very rapidly up to the point they sufficiently crushed Netscape, and then it totally stopped. Having a good open-source browser that appears to be evolving very quickly exposes Microsoft to the risk that Mozilla will get good enough to start luring folks to it."
Sounds about right to me.
(By Asia Business Consulting)
It is not quite clear how it worked but apparently, the virus was downloaded when visistors using Internet Explorer on a non-updated Windows computer were visiting the respective sites.
That is a new one for the Internet world, really.
There is an article about the background of Firefox, and one Prof. Mendel Rosenblum in the Computer Science Department is quoted as saying independently from this virus incidence):
"Browser innovation at Microsoft proceeded very rapidly up to the point they sufficiently crushed Netscape, and then it totally stopped. Having a good open-source browser that appears to be evolving very quickly exposes Microsoft to the risk that Mozilla will get good enough to start luring folks to it."
Sounds about right to me.
(By Asia Business Consulting)
posted by Andreas @ 1:45 pm
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