Thursday, July 12th 2007
Incompatibility Between Firefox and Internet Explorer Causes Security Hole
If both IE and Firefox version 2.0, or later are loaded on a persons computer a zero day security hole may occur.
The trouble begins when visiting a site with malicious content while using IE. The site then registers a "firefoxurl://" URI (uniform resource identifier) handler, that gives access to that site and allows it to interact with IE.
The Security researcher named Thor Larholm who discovered the Security Hole and Symantec put much of the blame on IE, while Secunia's chief technology researcher named Thomas Kristensen, blamed FireFox for this Security Issue.
Source : Zdnet
The trouble begins when visiting a site with malicious content while using IE. The site then registers a "firefoxurl://" URI (uniform resource identifier) handler, that gives access to that site and allows it to interact with IE.
The Security researcher named Thor Larholm who discovered the Security Hole and Symantec put much of the blame on IE, while Secunia's chief technology researcher named Thomas Kristensen, blamed FireFox for this Security Issue.
Source : Zdnet
37 Comments on Incompatibility Between Firefox and Internet Explorer Causes Security Hole
That quote in it self will apply to 99% of PC users as IE comes fully installed on all XP & Vista machines.
So just installing Mozilla will causes this scenario to happen.
Firefox is the vehicle, but it's relaly IE's fault.
I still agree entirely that it is mostly IEs fault, but FF is not entirely blameless.
Its ie.. :laugh:
If you wanna scrape it up to fanboi-ism, GTFO.
The fix will be for IE.
Both are Outstanding Browsers.