Are there any current html based exploits that affect Opera?
People who use IE seem to have an attitude to web pages that I would reserve for running an unknown downloaded program.
I've never been able to take it as real, but I guess if you choose to use a browser that seems to have been designed as a 'virtual universe' for the evolution of 'virtual organisms' (aka worms/viruses) then you'd have to be wary. A sign of residual intelligence I suppose.
In message , Dave J writes
It would appear so as every new release seems to fix some security holes. It wouldn't be worth investigating Opera specific exploits IMHO as it has such a small market share. ISTM that the people that find them are the ones that fix them, the way it should be.
Which is as it should be. The point is that in other browsers (say Mozilla or Opera) the exploits are not public for long enough to be a threat. M$ wait for a virus before releasing a patch that most people won't risk installing because the last one crippled so much of their system.
Regardless of the causes, the situation is currently such that you only use IE as a file viewer if you *want* to see what executables you can catch.
"Dare I click that link?"
"How much do you 'trust' this webpage?" - ffs..
Dave J.
This is completely untrue, and very misleading, there are just as many exploits in Mozilla and Opera - they get found just as regularly as in other browsers (the same few security companies find almost all the issues and work against all of them) None of the recent viruses have exploited any holes in Web browsers, be it IE or another, it's all about stupidity. Opera and Mozilla are also not significantly faster at fixing bugs in released versions, and certainly neither of them have automated update methods to ensure patching.
They're protected simply through obscurity.
Jim.
Have a look at this URL and see if you can say that with a straight face..
Even Microsofts patches need patches
"If Microsoft designed a home, it would have no walls so your living experience would be 'seamlessly' integrated with the outdoors. But burglars would find your stuff incredibly easy to steal"
Just for a final giggle, how about this article "200 days to fix a broken windows" Not directly IE related, but educational all the same.
That seems to be talking about IE, it makes no mention of other UA's... Remember I didn't disagree about anything that was said about IE, just about the others.
Yeah, so? A minority browser used by a 1% at most of a company that no-one has an agenda against doesn't generate the same behaviour in those who list flaws.
Jim.
snipped-for-privacy@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.individual.net:
See, however:
Microsoft this week reiterated that it would keep the new version of Microsoft's IE Web browser available only as part of the recently released Windows XP operating system, Service Pack 2. The upgrade to XP from any previous Windows versions is $99 when ordered from Microsoft. Starting from scratch, the operating system costs $199.
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