Internet Explorer 11 is Officially Available for Windows 7

[SteelCity1981]

it's nice but why did they get rid of the disable tab browsing option. I don't care for tab browsing and they removed that feature in ie11 now you are stuck with a tab next to the address bard...

 

[Belardo]

Nope... just looked at some screenshots of IE11 for Win7... its flat like Win8, unlike IE9.

Opera was good... now its Chrome,with a bit of Oprera skin on it.

 

[derekullo]

double post

 

[back_by_demand]

IE had a couple of bad years, but has been back in the game recently, why aren't people dissing Firefox for laziness the way people were quick to do for IE?

 

[Guest]

IE11 wowo golly gee! Now I have a web browser to go with
AOL 12 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and my 56k turbo charged super modem!

 

[heffeque]

IE11 is actually a very good browser. Its fast and it links in with MSE so it works out to be very secure.

MSE... secure... That's where I stopped reading. *Sigh...*

 

[beoza]

I uninstalled and blocked IE10 because of too many issues, why would I want to install this new browser? Yes there are new features, updated security but I'll still block it at least for the next several month because some sites are a little slow to update their support for new IE versions (same can be said for other browsers as well). IE 9 is working fine for the few sites I do go to on it, and the clients computer I log into that run Win 8.1 with IE 11 are experiencing some hiccups on sites. It's not always a good idea to be an early adopter especially with tech, you're bound to run into hiccups in the first few months after release. I rarely if ever use chrome though I keep it up to date; I mainly use Firefox for my everyday browsing. At work we at least use Windows 7 with IE9, and not like my last job where they are still using Windows XP with IE8. It never hurts to have another browser installed just to see if a site issue is browser related or not.

 

[fleeb]

How can you uninstall something you have yet to install?

 

[Grandmastersexsay]

I just had to fix my mother-in-law's computer because she downloaded a virus though IE-11. After removing the virus I installed Firefox and she loves it.

IE-11 might have better security protocol than the other browsers today, but that doesn't mean it is more secure. IE is just too big of a target.

As far as speed goes, I don't know what kind of rigs you guys are running, but all the browsers load pretty much instantaneously. I don't know why you would sacrifice security for a few milliseconds load time that is indistinguishable to the human eye anyway.

As far as chrome goes, I get tracked enough by google. I don't need them tracking my favorite porn sites too.

 

[thundervore]

As someone that only uses IE i welcome the new version. IE have always performed great for me. Most people only go against IE because of their enviornment. For example when you work in a coprerate enviornment like Investment Banking or a Law Firm, company IT policy forces you to use IE and it is mostly so locked down that you cannot do anything. Then they start throwing in all those add-ons from third parties and dont get me started on the one version rule as most of these comapnes do not even upgrade their browsers because their Intranet and published web apps are incompatable and do not want to spend the resources to implement a new version of the broswer. This alone makes people who work in these enviornemnts hate IE and its not IE's fault, it is conpany policys fault.

Also users need to stop blaming a browser if they are uneducated enough to download a virus. It can happen in any browser.

For example, in my office we still use IE9. They refuse to update to another version and implement a security policy that prevent anyone from installing another browser even those with admin rights.

You can imagine the frustration I go through hen i go to work and have to use a crappy IE but when i go home my IE is flawless.

Adblock Plus for IE makes it even better now.

 

[bigpoppastuke]

I use Chrome a majority of the time but when chrome fails to load something, IE always loads it perfectly.

 

[Grandmastersexsay]

Also users need to stop blaming a browser if they are uneducated enough to download a virus. It can happen in any browser.

You sound like the uneducated one.

The majority of the time, people don't download the virus, their browser does when it loads a banner ad that exploits a weekness unique to that browser. The reason why IE is always more susceptable to these viruses is because hackers target IE more because more people use it. These banner ads aren't just on porn sites either. They pop up on plenty of legitimate sites too.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

The largest problem with browser security just happens to be the people who are using the browser, not the browser itself. Grandmaster, I suspect your mother-in-law would have just as happily downloaded her virus using Firefox, if she was using that at the time. Most problems computers get into are do-it-yourself, and blaming the computer or it's software for the initial problem, isn't going to help. Furthermore, since when did any browser launch code from banner ads? Are you talking about Internet Explorer 6 that shipped with Windows XP? Also, the security of other browsers may not be a feature at all, but a lack there-of. What browser do you turn to when you need to run an ActiveX control?

 

[booyaah]

If IE handled their plugins as eloquently as Chrome did, I would probably switch. MS needs to allow you to store favorite urls in Skydrive and make a small plugin like YAGBE for Chrome that lets you seemlessly access them from any computer

 

[Grandmastersexsay]

The largest problem with browser security just happens to be the people who are using the browser, not the browser itself. Grandmaster, I suspect your mother-in-law would have just as happily downloaded her virus using Firefox, if she was using that at the time. Most problems computers get into are do-it-yourself, and blaming the computer or it's software for the initial problem, isn't going to help. Furthermore, since when did any browser launch code from banner ads? Are you talking about Internet Explorer 6 that shipped with Windows XP? Also, the security of other browsers may not be a feature at all, but a lack there-of. What browser do you turn to when you need to run an ActiveX control?

You are just flat out wrong.

This is from Norton's current Threat Spotlight.

http://us.norton.com/security_response/

Threat Spotlight: Trojan.Ransomlock

Trojan.Ransomlock is a detection for Trojan horse programs that lock the desktop of a compromised computer making it unusable.

The threat may arrive on the compromised computer by various means, such as visiting malicious sites, by opening untrusted links or advertisement banners, or by installing software from untrusted sources.

These programs attempt to convince the user to pay money in order to have their computer unlocked and use a variety of different techniques in order to encourage the user to pay the ransom.


More information on Trojan.Ransomlock is available in the Trojan.Ransomlock writeup.

Infection

This threat is distributed through several means. Malicious websites, or legitimate websites that have been compromised, may drop the threat onto a compromised computer. This drive-by-download often happens surreptitiously. Another method used to propagate this type of malware is spam email containing infected attachments or links to malicious websites. The threat may also be downloaded manually by tricking the user into thinking they are installing a useful piece of software. Ransomware is also prevalent on peer-to-peer file sharing websites and is often packaged with pirated or illegally acquired software.

 

[JD88]

The largest problem with browser security just happens to be the people who are using the browser, not the browser itself. Grandmaster, I suspect your mother-in-law would have just as happily downloaded her virus using Firefox, if she was using that at the time. Most problems computers get into are do-it-yourself, and blaming the computer or it's software for the initial problem, isn't going to help. Furthermore, since when did any browser launch code from banner ads? Are you talking about Internet Explorer 6 that shipped with Windows XP? Also, the security of other browsers may not be a feature at all, but a lack there-of. What browser do you turn to when you need to run an ActiveX control?

You are just flat out wrong.

This is from Norton's current Threat Spotlight.

http://us.norton.com/security_response/

Threat Spotlight: Trojan.Ransomlock

Trojan.Ransomlock is a detection for Trojan horse programs that lock the desktop of a compromised computer making it unusable.

The threat may arrive on the compromised computer by various means, such as visiting malicious sites, by opening untrusted links or advertisement banners, or by installing software from untrusted sources.

These programs attempt to convince the user to pay money in order to have their computer unlocked and use a variety of different techniques in order to encourage the user to pay the ransom.


More information on Trojan.Ransomlock is available in the Trojan.Ransomlock writeup.

Infection

This threat is distributed through several means. Malicious websites, or legitimate websites that have been compromised, may drop the threat onto a compromised computer. This drive-by-download often happens surreptitiously. Another method used to propagate this type of malware is spam email containing infected attachments or links to malicious websites. The threat may also be downloaded manually by tricking the user into thinking they are installing a useful piece of software. Ransomware is also prevalent on peer-to-peer file sharing websites and is often packaged with pirated or illegally acquired software.

Strange. I've never ran antivirus and I've never encountered anything like this running Chrome on Linux. Perhaps the problem is with the OS and not the browser?

 

[Grandmastersexsay]

The largest problem with browser security just happens to be the people who are using the browser, not the browser itself. Grandmaster, I suspect your mother-in-law would have just as happily downloaded her virus using Firefox, if she was using that at the time. Most problems computers get into are do-it-yourself, and blaming the computer or it's software for the initial problem, isn't going to help. Furthermore, since when did any browser launch code from banner ads? Are you talking about Internet Explorer 6 that shipped with Windows XP? Also, the security of other browsers may not be a feature at all, but a lack there-of. What browser do you turn to when you need to run an ActiveX control?

You are just flat out wrong.

This is from Norton's current Threat Spotlight.

http://us.norton.com/security_response/

Threat Spotlight: Trojan.Ransomlock

Trojan.Ransomlock is a detection for Trojan horse programs that lock the desktop of a compromised computer making it unusable.

The threat may arrive on the compromised computer by various means, such as visiting malicious sites, by opening untrusted links or advertisement banners, or by installing software from untrusted sources.

These programs attempt to convince the user to pay money in order to have their computer unlocked and use a variety of different techniques in order to encourage the user to pay the ransom.


More information on Trojan.Ransomlock is available in the Trojan.Ransomlock writeup.

Infection

This threat is distributed through several means. Malicious websites, or legitimate websites that have been compromised, may drop the threat onto a compromised computer. This drive-by-download often happens surreptitiously. Another method used to propagate this type of malware is spam email containing infected attachments or links to malicious websites. The threat may also be downloaded manually by tricking the user into thinking they are installing a useful piece of software. Ransomware is also prevalent on peer-to-peer file sharing websites and is often packaged with pirated or illegally acquired software.

Strange. I've never ran antivirus and I've never encountered anything like this running Chrome on Linux. Perhaps the problem is with the OS and not the browser?

It must be nice using a hobby OS and not be required to use your computer in any professional capacity. You don't have to worry about viruses since no one writes viruses for Linux because less than 2% of PCs have Linux installed at all, let alone as the primary OS.

 

[Durandul]

They really need to write an article, in layman's terms, as to why those in the IT profession despise IE, and the benefits of using something else.

This is why: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/web-browser-chrome-25-firefox-19,3459.html

 

[JD88]

The largest problem with browser security just happens to be the people who are using the browser, not the browser itself. Grandmaster, I suspect your mother-in-law would have just as happily downloaded her virus using Firefox, if she was using that at the time. Most problems computers get into are do-it-yourself, and blaming the computer or it's software for the initial problem, isn't going to help. Furthermore, since when did any browser launch code from banner ads? Are you talking about Internet Explorer 6 that shipped with Windows XP? Also, the security of other browsers may not be a feature at all, but a lack there-of. What browser do you turn to when you need to run an ActiveX control?

You are just flat out wrong.

This is from Norton's current Threat Spotlight.

http://us.norton.com/security_response/

Threat Spotlight: Trojan.Ransomlock

Trojan.Ransomlock is a detection for Trojan horse programs that lock the desktop of a compromised computer making it unusable.

The threat may arrive on the compromised computer by various means, such as visiting malicious sites, by opening untrusted links or advertisement banners, or by installing software from untrusted sources.

These programs attempt to convince the user to pay money in order to have their computer unlocked and use a variety of different techniques in order to encourage the user to pay the ransom.


More information on Trojan.Ransomlock is available in the Trojan.Ransomlock writeup.

Infection

This threat is distributed through several means. Malicious websites, or legitimate websites that have been compromised, may drop the threat onto a compromised computer. This drive-by-download often happens surreptitiously. Another method used to propagate this type of malware is spam email containing infected attachments or links to malicious websites. The threat may also be downloaded manually by tricking the user into thinking they are installing a useful piece of software. Ransomware is also prevalent on peer-to-peer file sharing websites and is often packaged with pirated or illegally acquired software.

Strange. I've never ran antivirus and I've never encountered anything like this running Chrome on Linux. Perhaps the problem is with the OS and not the browser?

It must be nice using a hobby OS and not be required to use your computer in any professional capacity. You don't have to worry about viruses since no one writes viruses for Linux because less than 2% of PCs have Linux installed at all, let alone as the primary OS.

Hmm. I suppose all Android app development is a hobby then. I also suppose everything Google does at their headquarters is a hobby too. I suppose everything the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and NASA does is also a hobby.

In all seriousness, part of it is indeed low user base and therefore low interest. However, Linux is inherently more secure than Windows. There's a reason it is used on the International Space Station after their Windows PCs got infected a few years back.

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/open-source-insider/2013/05/international-space-station-adopts-debian-linux-drop-windows-red-hat-into-airlock.html

Linux is where the big boys play. Windows is for Office work.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

"The threat may arrive on the compromised computer by various means, such as visiting malicious sites, by opening untrusted links or advertisement banners, or by installing software from untrusted sources."

How have you proven me wrong when your own quote backs my point? In all of the attack vectors listed, it requires the user to initiate the intrusion of the unwanted software.

 

[techguy911]

Actually most of you are wrong it's java and flash that has security issues and most infections are from sites with ads that exploit them.
Block ads and you won't get infected unless the code is imbedded in the web page itself.
I run a virtual machine and browse bad sites with ad blockers and scan after so far i have yet to see an infection.

 

[jaimyrson]

huh huh,,,, IE is the best browser to download another browser..... LOL!!!

 

[jaimyrson]

Bwahahaha!!! IE for me is the best browser... to download another browser LOL !!!

 

[jaimyrson]

Bwahahaha!!! IE for me is the best browser... to download another browser LOL !!!

 

[beardguy]

Let's face it, IE sucks. I can't even use it anymore. When you compare the speed of Chrome there is just no going back, even if Chrome lacks some features of IE.