German government warns against using Microsoft Internet Explorer

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The Telegraph:

German government warns against using Microsoft Internet Explorer

The Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, urged web users to find an alternative browser to protect security.
The warning comes after Microsoft admitted Internet Explorer was the weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems.

Hackers in China had pried into e-mail accounts of human rights activists.
The company said, however, that the hole could be closed by setting the browser’s Internet security zone to “high”, although this limits functionality and blocks many websites.

However, German authorities say that even this would not make IE fully safe.
Graham Cluley of anti-virus firm Sophos told the BBC that the warning applied to versions 6, 7 and 8 of the browser.

“This is a vulnerability that was announced in the last couple of days. Microsoft have no patch yet and the implication is that this is the same one that exploited on the attacks on Google earlier this week,” he said.
“The way to exploit this flaw has now appeared on the internet, so it is quite possible that everyone is now going to have a go.”

Get Firefox

or Google Chrome

or Safari . . . or Opera

ANYTHING but Explorer!!!