Account Options

  1. Sign in
The old Google Groups will be going away soon, but your browser is incompatible with the new version.
Google Groups Home
« Groups Home
Message from discussion Proposal: Raise minimum requirements for 1.9.2 on Windows to WinXP SP3
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Followup To:
Add Cc | Add Followup-to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers you hear
 
Mike Shaver  
View profile  
 More options Apr 14 2009, 10:50 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Mike Shaver <mike.sha...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:50:18 -0400
Local: Tues, Apr 14 2009 10:50 am
Subject: Re: Proposal: Raise minimum requirements for 1.9.2 on Windows to WinXP SP3

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mike Beltzner <beltz...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> This is slightly off-topic, but do we know if those exploits are from just
> attaching the Windows network stack to a port or if they're from browsing
> with IE? If it's mostly the latter, then by preserving Firefox support for
> those users we're actually helping to protect them.

I believe those stats are based on the default set of
applications/services that can be remotely tickled for the various
operating systems, based on the list of ports they provide.  They
would likely respond promptly to an inquiry on the topic, if asked.

Mike


 
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.