Is this security routine overkill?
Aug 23, 2010 | 3:28 pm
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However, no, on a general basis there's just as much risk* of running into an IE zero-day, as there is of running into a Mozilla zero-day.
The real lesson is, a machine based on a common operating system used for browsing should never be trusted to the point of saying "I know that this machine has no malware on it". You simply cannot know.
* = I am oversimplifying.
