QUOTE (Doug @ 17 Dec 2008, 03:30)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>More news here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008...to_explore.html
This could really be a problem for some. The hackers target Microsoft like no other company. Firefox is a better browser - at least for the moment. Free and easy to use and configure. Built in spell checking should help some forum members
***These vulnerabilities have always existed and they are not limited to IE, so the answer really isn't one browswer or another, its that you really must have a good interactive anti-virus programme in place and operational including daily automatic updates.
IE remains at a guesss 90+ percent of all browswers in use, so its always going to be a prime target both statistically and because hackers can get a bigger thrill / potential profit from attacking a large corporate target. Because of this, Microsofts issues are always front page... other browser types simply aren't discussed or worried about by the press, so I sort of discount such things a lot every time....
Anyway, I'm actually forced to use IE as my main browser as I'm rebuilding the website .... (perversely this is because an IE change fritzed my menu system)
I stay with it as pragmatically, above all the website must present OK in that browser. The curse is that later I will need to try to "patch" some pages for the others.... The big problem for me is that Firefox and all the others tend to not display some forms of fonts/graphics/images all that well (especially if there are scaled images or gradients or odd font sizes or things like italics on the page).
So - having a good antivirus + having used IE for years as the primary browser (and BTW I have all the others on the desktop too) I'll stay with IE7 and my trusty antivirus package, and simply not worry... as if after 12 hours a day online for may years I've never had an infecction, its unlikely one will happen now!
Richard
