#96: Do not use Internet Explorer.
IE sucks major ass.
Secunia Research has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
The problem is that a website can inject content into another site's window if the target name of the window is known. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious website to spoof the content of a pop-up window opened on a trusted website.
From:http://secunia.com/advisories/13251
Security issues in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is a very vulnerable browser. It allows many trojan-horses, worms, spyware and adware and other viruses through without the user doing anything wrong or knowing that anything has gone wrong. Recently, millions of IE users had computers which switched off for no reason at all. This was the Sasser worm, which took advantage of a known flaw in IE. Since then, the US Government's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), produced an article which told users to stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer.
This is just some of the controversy surrounding Microsoft and IE regarding security. Many Internet Explorer users are now setting security settings to ridiculous levels, which slows down and stops certain sites from displaying. None of this is necessary. All that is necessary is to switch to a different browser.
From:http://www.stopie.com/stopie/reasons
http://www.stopie.com/stopie/security
I've removed the trojans that have been screwing up the computer. The Russian anti-virus scanner really works. The yahoo, google and msn pages are back to normal and I'm not gonna use IE ever again, unless I really have to. I'm gonna tell my sister to stop using IE as well. Firefox is the sex. <3
Secunia Research has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
The problem is that a website can inject content into another site's window if the target name of the window is known. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious website to spoof the content of a pop-up window opened on a trusted website.
From:http://secunia.com/advisories/13251
Security issues in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is a very vulnerable browser. It allows many trojan-horses, worms, spyware and adware and other viruses through without the user doing anything wrong or knowing that anything has gone wrong. Recently, millions of IE users had computers which switched off for no reason at all. This was the Sasser worm, which took advantage of a known flaw in IE. Since then, the US Government's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), produced an article which told users to stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer.
This is just some of the controversy surrounding Microsoft and IE regarding security. Many Internet Explorer users are now setting security settings to ridiculous levels, which slows down and stops certain sites from displaying. None of this is necessary. All that is necessary is to switch to a different browser.
From:http://www.stopie.com/stopie/reasons
http://www.stopie.com/stopie/security
I've removed the trojans that have been screwing up the computer. The Russian anti-virus scanner really works. The yahoo, google and msn pages are back to normal and I'm not gonna use IE ever again, unless I really have to. I'm gonna tell my sister to stop using IE as well. Firefox is the sex. <3