US-CERT: Beware of IE
This article and Amy Gahran’s post on Contentious finally pushed me over the edge. I’m trying Firefox and so far am enjoying it. I do have Opera installed, but I’m finding it cluttered. MS really needs to deal with this asap. Can you say “negligence”? They’ve admitted it is a flaw, they’ve admitted that it isn’t patched, and haven’t posted a patch. MS’s suggestion to switching the Internet zone to “High” securit is a joke. You might as well not surf. Maybe this is the first sign that MS’s dominance of the Internet will start to wane. Who knows, but we can hope.
“US-CERT: Beware of IE
By Ryan Naraine
The U.S. government’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning Web surfers to stop using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
On the heels of last week’s sophisticated malware attack that targeted a known IE flaw, US-CERT updated an earlier advisory to recommend the use of alternative browsers because of ‘significant vulnerabilities’ in technologies embedded in IE.“