A Safe Browser?

Although it ain't exactly news, news.com's Art Manion writes that it doesn't matter what browser you use, you face security trouble. Internet Explorer, of course, has had myriad problems, and recently Firefox has been getting in on the act. Now comes the news that popular Firefox extension Greasemonkey has a major security hole.
The Greasemonkey flaw allows web sites to which the user connects to download any file on the user's hard drive. The nastiest part of the whole thing is that the flaw is by design — an API that gives websites download access to user's files. The Greasemonkey development team is recommending that all users update to version 0.3.5 or remove Greasemonkey altogether.
By Chris on July 21, 2005 5:27 AM |