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Re: Retiring Internet Explorer

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Well, this assumes that it won't be compromised during an Internet banking session. Since I have a workaround (use the mobile app for personal banking, go to the bank for business stuff - which I don't need to do often) it doesn't seem worth the trouble and risk.

How would it be compromised if you only connect to the bank?

The bank requires their own ActiveX control and external software which the ActiveX control communicates with, both of questionable quality. Surely that's one of the more likely attack vectors you could have on a system?

Re: Retiring Internet Explorer

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IE should just be a compatibility mode in edge so you only have one program and a button to say "this page is broken, load in legacy mode". That way everyone else in the world can stop being forced to support IE users.

This won't work where ActiveX is required. They would have to write a plug-in wrapper...

The legacy mode would surely run MSHTML.dll for the entire page.
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