Via Michael at eclecticism. Web users are being warned to avoid using Internet Explorer.
Users are being told to avoid using Internet Explorer until Microsoft patches a serious security hole in it.
The loophole is being exploited to open a backdoor on a PC that could let criminals take control of a machine.
The threat of infection is so high because the code created to exploit the loophole has somehow been placed on many popular websites.
Experts say the list of compromised sites involves banks, auction and price comparison firms and is growing fast.
Yikes. I guess I’m somewhat fortunate that my IE went kablooey a while back. Since then I’ve been using Mozilla Firefox. I haven’t looked back. I haven’t had any reason to. The only thing I wonder about now is what on earth I did before tabbed browsing? The pop-up blocking is great too. So, Firefox is my browser. At least until it goes kablooey too.