[Leaplist] Enterprise AV for Linux

Bryan J Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
Fri Dec 12 14:35:38 EST 2008


tony_l_turner at yahoo.com wrote:
> We tried to replace IE with Firefox a couple years ago but even
> with the user agent switcher there were a handful of IIS apps that
> squawked when we tried, not to mention the challenges in removing
> IE.

Hank Lambert wrote:
> I've run into this as well. I had to install IE 6.0 on my Linux laptop
> just so that I could use RWW (Remote Web Workplace) to troubleshoot
> connection issues with users on SBS servers. Aside from that, it's
> Opera and Firefox for me.

On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 02:24 -0500, Fred Moore wrote:
> IE4Linux works very well..  it runs IE under wine.. Fred
> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

No one says you must run Firefox, but I would make it the default
browser.  Especially under Windows where e-mail (especially Outlook)
just loves to auto-launch MS IE with something that can totally exploit
it automagically.

Leave MS IE for just the sites you absolutely need it for.


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