Comments on: Internet Explorer. Better the Devil You Know?

By: In a Zero-Day World, It’s Active Attacks that Matter | My Blog

In a Zero-Day World, It’s Active Attacks that Matter | My Blog — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:38:52 +0000

[...] all-browsers-are-equally-exposed argument was most recently waged by Trend Micro‘s Rik Ferguson. Ferguson charges that it’s unfair and unrealistic to expect IE [...]

By: אקספלורר, כרום ופיירפוקס: מי הכי בטוח? [דעה] | Newsgeek

אקספלורר, כרום ופיירפוקס: מי הכי בטוח? [דעה] | Newsgeek — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:20:30 +0000

[...] 275 סיכוני אבטחה בכרוםצילום מסך, אתר גוגל-כרוםבמאמר תגובה שכתב ריק פרגוסון מחברת האנטי וירוס Trend Micro, הוא טוען [...]

By: In a Zero-Day World, It’s Active Attacks that Matter |Trax Asia™

In a Zero-Day World, It’s Active Attacks that Matter |Trax Asia™ — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:38:46 +0000

[...] all-browsers-are-equally-exposed argument was most recently waged by Trend Micro‘s Rik Ferguson. Ferguson charges that it’s unfair and unrealistic to [...]

By: Trisha P.

Trisha P. — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:57:42 +0000

Nobody was saying to permanently switch to Chrome or Firefox. They were just saying to use other browsers until Microsoft fixes the vulnerability.

By: Indagadores |Seguridad informatica |Seguridad en internet » En un mundo de día cero, es Ataques activos that Matter

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 05:10:51 +0000

[...] en el últimos 19 meses. El argumento de todos los navegadores, están igualmente expuestos-era la última librada por Trend Micro ‘s Rik Ferguson . Ferguson acusa de que es injusto y poco realista esperar [...]

By: In a Zero-Day World, It’s Active Attacks that Matter — Krebs on Security

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 04:01:46 +0000

[...] all-browsers-are-equally-exposed argument was most recently waged by Trend Micro‘s Rik Ferguson. Ferguson charges that it’s unfair and unrealistic to [...]

By: hwangeruk

hwangeruk — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:28:46 +0000

J.R. and Marcin you are both wrong.
Adblock is available for IE
also
Blocking of Javascript.
All browsers don’t do the above without extra effort from default.
I use all the browsers for different reasons in different places. I’ve seen malware get through them all in my line of work.

By: IE, Chrome, Firefox三巨頭,漏洞數量比一比 | 雲端防毒是趨勢

IE, Chrome, Firefox三巨頭,漏洞數量比一比 | 雲端防毒是趨勢 — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:43:55 +0000

[...] 趨勢科技資安專家Rik Ferguson 在以下的文章中表示:"每一種瀏覽器都有其弱點、漏洞與修補程式 (最後一項有可能沒有)。每個人有自己合適的選擇，針對不同的安全工具和技巧，您需要對瀏覽器、技術或威脅特性有不同程度的熟悉，才能有效保護自己，又不會讓您無法順利上網。" [...]

By: J.R.

J.R. — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:28:01 +0000

My experience is similar to Marcin Marciniak’s: Firefox with NoScript & AdBlock+ do really well. IE, for me, is only used on a very limited basis. I don’t believe Chrome or Opera have NoScript or equivilents yet. Correct me if I’m wrong, please.

By: Marcin Marciniak

Marcin Marciniak — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:44:01 +0000

You’ve scored a point. But there are lies, bigger lies and statistics. For me the most important reason AGAINST Internet Explorer (which I consider light years better than Safari for Windows) is lack of proper content filters (NoScript and Adblock Plus – rules!). Nothing similar is available for IE from Microsoft. Proper use of NoScript decreases number of crappy things that your browser can retrieve on it’s own. I wish I had similar simple tool for IE 6 years ago. The company in question is running centrally updated and managed Firefox (via Active Directory) with proper NoScript settings – for 4 years. Number of alerts on IPS and firewall come down to near zero immediately after migration (!). They blocked all Web request that seem to come from IE on a firewall (User-Agent and so). It’s not the best solution ever, but it works. For years now. There weren’t even a single alert from AV (first Nod32 then yours, that is) on workstations after migration I told about.
Microsoft learned a lession, at least IE is updated faster than before. In case of critical vulnerabilities used in the wild they issue a patch in less than 10 days. That’s impressive, but still lagging after FF. Maybe in IE 10 there will be such a tool, similar to NoScript, Adblock Plus and Ghostery. Without them I will not use IE at all.