Did you ever think about starting your own blog?

I’m glad to see someone else taking this seriously at last, as i’ve been trying to get the message across to people for several years !

ActiveX/Scripting/iframes and other exploitable code should have been excluded from websites a Long time ago. Quite why new ones are still being designed with such code is beyond belief in 2k6 !

If website owners/operators havn’t heard about ALL the exploits and Malware that has been downloaded into peoples PC’s over the years, due to having this code on their www’s, then they must be asleep at the wheel. It’s up to them to INSIST that security comes first over and above Everything else, and to make sure the web designers carry out their requests. After all they are paying them the $.

For example, i can log into most forums, submit/post messages on these and in web pages, download/upload files post images etc, play online sound and video, etc etc. All this and much more is possible without any of the above insecure options. So that means people would be able to Disable those active controls, and be able to stay online much more safely. Of course some people, completely missing the point, will say use a different browser. Well you won’t need to if websites didn’t have this code in them, plus because so many do, a browser other than IE and the like, won’t always work. There is actually NO need for ANY email service to require ANY active content, if they Chose to code it more safely that way.

Even without using unsafe code, sites can still be Very interactive/pretty etc etc. A nice alternative is to design www’s with CSS, as it’s far superior and safer too. Thankfully i’ve noticed more www’s now doing this, and one good example is Steve Gibsons – http://www.grc.com –

It’s about time those in the industry who should and could be doing somethings about all this, start doing so ASAP. Better late than never, and the sooner they begin the quicker the amount of Malware entering poeples PC’s will reduce dramatically.

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