COMODO - Browsers don't assure PCs

Jersey City, NJ, December 19, 2008 - Computer users about the apple agilely switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox on Wednesday afterwards acquirements that a vulnerability in IE larboard their computers apparent to awful advance alleged IE XML Heap Corruption Vulnerability.

"These kinds of vulnerabilities action in a lot of software," said Melih Abdulhayoglu, Chief Security Architect of Comodo, a arch Internet assurance and aegis company.

"Internet Explorer is the a lot of accepted browser in the world. Of advance hackers are traveling to try to accomplishment it. The catechism is, why are humans assured their browsers to assure them from attacks? That’s not the browser’s job. It’s not a aegis solution."

"The band-aid is not to move from one browser to another. That is a abbreviate appellation and acting fix. There will be added attacks on added browsers. You don’t charge addition browser. You charge a solution."

"The IE XML Heap Corruption vulnerability was a affectionate of malware alleged a absorber overflow. For the endure year and a bisected Comodo has adequate millions of users about the apple from those attacks by distributing the Comodo Memory Firewall™ for free."

"Browsers are accepting added complex. More aggravation agency that added things can go wrong, which makes them harder to analysis for vulnerabilities. As we body added and added circuitous software it becomes added arduous to analysis for flaws. The added cipher added, the added affective locations the software has, and the added circuitous it becomes. Testing for all permutations of all scenarios becomes actual difficult."

"People should apprehend attacks from arrant hackers," Abdulhayoglu said. “Computer users should use their browsers to browse, and they should install Internet aegis software, like Comodo Internet Security, to assure their computers."

"PC aegis have to focus on prevention, not on audition problems already manifest. It’s abundant bigger to stop malware at the aperture rather than cat-and-mouse until it’s on your computer."

"Comodo Internet Security is a prevention-based software apartment and protects PCs behindhand of which browser is used.

"Malicious software is growing added adult and there are abounding altered means to advance your PC. 25-year-old detection-based technologies, such as antiviruses, are absolutely bare today. Prevention is the key. With the accustomed gaps in Internet Explorer, computer users are seeing a real-life archetype of the abortion of detection-based antivirus technologies and the amount of prevention-based technologies."
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The Comodo companies accommodate the basement that is capital in enabling e-merchants, added Internet-connected companies, software companies, and alone consumers to collaborate and conduct business via the Internet cautiously and securely. The Comodo companies action PKI SSL, Code Signing, Content Verification and E-Mail Certificates; accolade acceptable PC aegis software; vulnerability scanning casework for PCI Compliance; defended e-mail and fax services.

Continual innovation, a amount adequacy in PKI, and a charge to abandoning the advance of Internet-crime analyze the Comodo companies as basic players in the Internet's advancing development. Comodo secures and authenticates online affairs and communications for over 200,000 business barter and has over 10,000,000 installations of desktop aegis products.

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