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Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by elai on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @07:53PM (#838271)
Those sort of worms tend to cause more problems than they solve. The nimda-counter worm (or something else) comes to mind. The people who need IE6 will revert to IE6 anyway.
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Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by scotty79 on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @08:10PM (#838298)
I know that such worm could accidentally be harmful. But IE6 is also very harmful. Security issues in IE can attribute for large fraction of infections with malicious software.

Drugs can have side effects in some percentage of treated patients but if they help more than hurt they are still used, especially for diseases where no good treatment is available. Just like in case of IE6.

Probably only small fraction of current IE6 users needs IE6 and would revert to it in case other than reinstalling windows after total system failure and thus involuntarily bringing IE6 back on board.

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