Block web browsing by older browsers

Posted by Eamon on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Eamon
Published on 2010-04-07T06:48:20Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 6:53 UTC
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Given the vulnerabilities in older versions of IE, I want to enforce a rule that only the latest IE or Firefox is used to browse the web. I can't ensure that everyone's PC is up to date, so is there a firewall that will let me write a rule to restrict the version of the browser that can make requests through the firewall? Our current firewall is from Watchguard

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