[Am-info] Muckysoft and stupid

[Gene Gaines]

This has been known about for years, and never fixed -Gene Gaines

"Microsoft's crxxxxare browser, Explorer, has more security
vulnerabilities than my block has dope-dealers, but this is
ridiculous. MSFT now advises its users to not click links, but
rather to type them in by hand.

From: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5Bln%5D;833786

     The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from
     malicious hyperlinks is not to click them. Rather, type the URL of your
     intended destination in the address bar yourself. By manually typing the URL
     in the address bar, you can verify the information that Internet Explorer
     uses to access the destination Web site. To do so, type the URL in the
     Address bar, and then press ENTER.

Or, you could, you know, just Download Mozilla."

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Above from:

Subject: [Boing Boing Blog] MSFT: don't click on links, type them in by hand
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:15
From: Cory Doctorow <doctorow@craphound.com>
To: boingboing-mailblog@yahoogroups.com