Microsoft Moves On Spyware To Stymie Firefox
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Microsoft bought anti-spyware technology this week to protect its Internet Explorer browser from surging rivals like Mozilla&#39;s Firefox, a group of Gartner analysts said Friday.
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More than six million people have downloaded Firefox, the open-source descendant of the Netscape browser killed off by Internet Explorer in a battle that figured large in the US anti-trust case against Microsoft.
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Web surfing has belonged almost exclusively to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer ever since it buried Netscape's pioneering browser. That doesn't seem to have bothered the developers of the Mozilla Firefox, a feisty new kid on the block that's worth a serious look.
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Mozilla will patch a security bug in Firefox that could be attacked in Internet Explorer.
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Have adware and spyware commandeered your computer? An extreme solution: erasing your hard drive and starting over.
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Feds say switching browsers is one way to deal with security threats.
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TechWeb - Mozilla may be leveraging insight from Microsoft. They are considering implementing a security feature in the upcoming OS to better protect future versions of Firefox from attack.
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The Firefox Web browser has been causing a commotion among users and snaring snippets of market share from Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer since June--long before Version 1.0 of the open-source software was officially released earlier this month.
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Opinion: Internet Explorer is insecure junk, and it&#39;s time for Windows users to move to Firefox if they want to protect their systems.
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Microsoft said some spyware could cause computers to freeze up upon installation of the SP2 update. Microsoft recommends that users clean their PCs of spyware and back up their data before
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Mozilla Corp. has acknowledged that hackers can drop malicious code into systems running Firefox when the browser is armed with any of several high-profile add-ons, including Google Toolbar and Yahoo Toolbar.
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p2pnet.net News:- Mozilla&#39;s Firefox is still giving Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer grief, scoring heavily against the latter&#39;s gaping security holes.
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Web properties that design primarily for Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer (IE) are being put on notice. Various online sites are abuzz with data from WebSideStory, an Internet analytics firm, showing that Firefox
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Security researchers have found flaws in older versions of the Mozilla and Firefox browsers, and the Thunderbird e-mail client, that could allow an attacker to spy on or take over a user's system.
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Windows users could soon be paying for Microsoft software that keeps their machine free of spyware.
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With the elegant Firefox, the open-source camp is mounting a full frontal attack on Microsoft's long dominant Internet Explorer.
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The success of alternative browsers such as Mozilla Foundation&#39;s Firefox may ultimately have an unexpected side effect. It may be causing Microsoft to be more aggressive in leveraging its dominance of Internet