Friends don't let friends use IE

Wednesday, December 17. 2008

Friends don't let friends use IE

I hate Internet Explorer. The hate stems from all the issues I've ran into over the years with web sites and web development while accepted web standards having to be bastardized to support IE. You add in all the security holes in that software with Active-X and all the COM exposed facets of the program and you have a nightmare for potential hackers intruding on your computer.

Today's news in the BBC simply highlights another in a long line of failures on Microsoft's browser:

Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed. The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.

So PLEASE change over to a standards compliant browser that can fix vulnerabilities much faster: Firefox, Opera, or Safari. (I'd advise against Google Chrome for now)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm

Posted by Chris in General News at 03:26 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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