Everyone program and OS has holes. The thing is the hackers only go after the main stream products use by most people. Use an old Amiga computer and you would be even more safer. No one is writing software to take advantage of them, anymore. You never hear about hack or bugs in other programs for the same reason. Compared to the rest, no one hardly uses them So the new doesn't report it as fiercely. Why some times it is best to use out of date or odd ball software. I still use Netscape 4.08 for mail. No mail ware program alive can affect my computer. I will probably use it forever. ---- http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5132 "As mentioned in this Mozillazine article, there are new versions of the Mozilla Suite (1.7.2), Mozilla Firefox (0.9.3) and Mozilla Thunderbird (0.7.3) available. They address 4 security bugs (linked from the Mozillazine article). Unlike Firefox 0.9.2, these can't be fixed with just a XPI upgrade, so you'll have to download a new binary and install." ------ http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=1497 04 May 2004 Apple accused of downplaying security holes It releases range of patches for known and unknown vulnerabilities. By Kieren McCarthy, Techworld Apple has released a range of patches for security holes - both old and new - for its Mac OS X operating system, which it advises users to download immediately. The company is downplaying the issue but one security company at least is concerned that the vulnerabilities could be extremely serious. Secunia has given the five - yes, five - patches a "highly critical" rating and warned that they may allow hijacking, security bypass, data manipulation, privilege escalation, denial of service and system access. ------- No one is safe. All it takes is one creative hacker and any system is open for attack. Even an old Timex Sinclare 2000 I think the best new thing coming is the two way firewall that controls both input and output. If you really look. No one is safe. Just some are a tad safer from the lack of popularity or main stream use.
Seriously though, the easiest thing that the "little computer knowledge" guy can do is go with Netscape (or one of it's lesser known brethren). You don't even have to buy/download/run any extra popup blockers!
