RE: Design Change Requests -- MIDRANGE-L

I don't know that it's documented anywhere, but I saw it with my own
eyes.  My mother's PC was having problems so I updated her anti-virus
(AVG Free on WinXP) and ran a full system virus scan.  It cleaned most
of the virus' the first time but one kept coming back no matter what I
did.  I finally tracked it to the IE cache.  Opened IE, Tools > Internet
Options > Delete Files... > Delete all offline content.  Then ran the
full system virus scan again and finally it was clean.

Keep in mind that my mother (65 yo) barely knows how to open
attachments.  She uses Hotmail, which runs AV against all emails.  I
believe that she caught this virus from some website while surfing and
IE allowed it to install itself.  

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group
 

-----Original Message-----
date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:05:18 -0500
from: "Henza, Guy" <GHenza@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Design Change Requests

OK, you peeked my interest.  Where is it documented that IE cache
harbors Trojans?
 
Regards, 
 
Guy 

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date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:08:42 -0600
from: "Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Design Change Requests

Certainly that's a good point.  However FF 1.0.7 is probably less than
six months old, I was not aware that 1.5 was even out.  (Checked, it was
installed on my machine on 9/20/2005)  Additionally, due to increased
security I no longer have admin access to my PC here at work and I now
have to submit a security form any time I want to upgrade anything. 

Someone mentioned that they run a full system virus scan whenever they
use IE.  I don't think that is an over-reaction.  I finally quit using
IE entirely when I found that the IE cache was harboring trojans that my
virus scan couldn't clean.

My original question was: Why doesn't this page allow unsupported
browsers to continue, or at least present a "browser not supported"
message instead of some cryptic message with no info and circular links?

I don't really want to get into a discussion of the various features of
dozens of browsers, I just want to know why anyone would write code that
excludes one browser over another.  I can use any number of 5250 or
telnet clients to access my iSeries and I don't ever get a message that
says: "Your request cannot be displayed."

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group


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