[K12OSN] HTML exploits

[Ehrhart, Jay]

Leaving Microsoft Internet Explorer may solve some of the exploits but
what about the rest?  Also I have 12,000 desktops behind my firewall at
school districts that I don't have control over and need to protect.  I
am looking for a solution for desk tops that I can control and those
that I cannot.

Is there an open source solution that product that can filter web
traffic for HTML exploits, hi-jackings and other web page viruses and
maybe even some spyware?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Kendrick [mailto:nbs at sonic.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 11:38 AM
To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] HTML exploits

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:37:00PM -0400, Access Systems wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, William J McCloskey wrote:
> 
> > I'm also interested in this, There were 4 new exploits discovered
today in
> > IE and I cant really get people away from IE as we use some
Microsoft web
> > apps that require it.

Simple.  Stop using them.

Too harsh?  Well, it's that, or live with the security problems IE keeps
cropping up with.

Kind of a crappy toss-up.  I'm glad that I realized IE was a pile of
crap
back in 1996 when I was first doing web development.  Not even counting
the
security insanity, I look at it today (running WinXP for work; hadn't
used Windows since circa 1998 on a friend's PC), I haven't really seen
any
major leaps in stability, usability, or sanity.

Thank HEAVENS for the likes of Linux and Mozilla.  I can't afford a Mac.
:^P

-bill!


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