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From: Ernest T. Bass on 21 Jul 2010 12:27 "Alias" <aka(a)maskedandanomymous.net.invalidado> wrote in message news:i2763s$378$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... : On 7/21/2010 5:55 PM, VanguardLH wrote: : > Alias wrote: : > : >> Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, etc. all have a security update today. : > : > This has what to do with Windows XP, the topic of *these* newsgroups? : : A lot of people who use XP or Win 7 also use Mozilla products, what : else? By updating these products you are making XP more secure. : : -- : Alias No, you trolling HoopleHead. You're making the Mozilla products more secure.
From: Gordon on 21 Jul 2010 12:55 On 21/07/10 16:55, VanguardLH wrote: > Alias wrote: > >> Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, etc. all have a security update today. > > This has what to do with Windows XP, the topic of *these* newsgroups? It wasn't Alias who crossposted it - his original post was to alt.windows7.general
From: Spamlet on 21 Jul 2010 12:59 "Alias" <aka(a)maskedandanomymous.net.invalidado> wrote in message news:i271ao$g4q$2(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, etc. all have a security update today. > > -- > Alias Well I for one thank you for the tip, as, for some reason my Firefox had not yet picked up the update automatically. And my XP system must be safer with it than without. (I have IE8, but I have never found a way to speed up it's opening, and got fed up just staring at a tab labelled 'connecting' for ages, just to get to 'about blank'. No such issue with Firefox.) Cheers, S
From: Shenan Stanley on 21 Jul 2010 13:08 Alias wrote: > A lot of people who use XP or Win 7 also use Mozilla products, what > else? By updating these products you are making XP more secure. No - you are not making the operating system (XP in your example) more secure. You may be making the user data more secure that is stored on the system drive/other storage devices that may be running a particular operating system (XP in your example) - but you have not made the operating system itself more secure. You are making the data more secure because you are closing possible access points to the data through 'issues' in the current version of whatever application you are patching. You have done nothing to the core of the operating system and the hole might not even exist if the application in question was not installed. If I purchase a bolt-down floor safe and put it in my home, my *home* is not more secure but the valuables I store in the safe may be. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
From: Greg Russell on 21 Jul 2010 13:26
"Alias" <aka(a)hewhoismasked&anonymous.com> wrote in message news:i2727p$jov$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > This post of mine is helpful, especially if you use Mozilla products. It > has NOT been announced on the tech sites, Yahoo or Google News. Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Updates (tab). Check "Firefox" in "Automatically check for updates ..." and check your notification prefernce. Then you won't have to be the self-appointed boy who cried "Wolf!", since nobody is listening anyway. If you had even bothered to give http://mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.7/whatsnew/ even a cursory examination, you would've easily seen that the update was not a security issue, but rather more cosmetic than anything. Get a life, please. Nobody needs you to tell them things they already know. |