Paypal to block 'unsafe browsers'

[evilfantasy]

Paypal said it was "an alarming fact that there is a significant set of users who use very old and vulnerable browsers such as Internet Explorer 4".

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[soybean]

Internet Explorer 4!  Wow, that's old.  Yeah, they ought to block them.  There's no reason anyone using financial-type websites should be doing so with such an old browser.   

[mcxeb52!]

yeah it's too old and people should just be using modern technology anyway! 

[evilfantasy]

PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe (updated)

PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe (updated) | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com

[mcxeb52!]

PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe (updated)

PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe (updated) | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com

Wow .... the first ' modern ' browser that's being given the boot.  But there is always the firefox for them MAC users I guess. But then again I am seeing reports that said that safari is being used by very low percentages of internet users.

[soybean]

Well, Safari is Apple's web browser, right?  So, it would have a substantial number of users.

[evilfantasy]

New update. I have to credit my friend Jason at Tech Support Team for this info.

PayPal: We won't block Safari users

PayPal, the electronic payment service owned by eBay Inc., has denied that it plans to tag Apple Inc.'s Safari as "unsafe" and block it from accessing the site.

"We have absolutely no intention of blocking current versions of any browsers, including Apple's Safari, from our website," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail late Friday.

PayPal was reacting to reports of a research paper released the week before by Michael Barrett, the firm's chief information security officer, that said the payment service would ban browsers that lacked a way to block known or suspected phishing sites, and didn't support Extended Validation (EV) certificates.

View: Full Article @ ComputerWorld

[patio]

From what i've read Safari has or will shortly be releasing a patch for the exploit advertised by the security convention recently concluded.

[evilfantasy]

This is interesting.

IE 5.01 to be exact -- will be terminated in mid-2010 when Microsoft retires Windows 2000.

MS was trying to kill off XP this year. Yet Windows 2000 is slated for 2010. Whats up with that?

[dairyman]

MS was trying to kill off XP this year

Bloody evil capitalists.

[patio]

XP support including a live voice on the end of a phone was extended early last year to the Year 2014...
More like they were hopelessly trying to market Vista rather than kill XP.

[mcxeb52!]

that's what I hear that sp3 is intended to give users all the updates that they didn't get the first time around for the xp system as well as some newer updates meant for bug / security fixing but that vista is what they intend you to go get.

and I also heard that microsoft stopped producing upgrade versions of windows vista and dropped the full versions of vista to the now-defunct upgrade price....