German government warns against using MS Explorer

[Modbert]

BBC News - German government warns against using MS Explorer

The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security.

The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.

Microsoft say the security hole can be shut by setting the browser's 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.

Speaking to BBC News, Graham Cluley of anti-virus firm Sophos said 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.

Thoughts?

 

[Skull Pilot]

Internet Explorer sucks

 

[Modbert]

Internet Explorer sucks

That it does. I use either firefox or when I'm on my mac, Safari.

 

[Skull Pilot]

I've been using Firefox for a long time now.

 

[oki]

google chrome is pretty good too. but i mostly use firefox.

 

[Xenophon]

The same thing i always say, MS products suck.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

the moment I got my Vista machine back from the shop where they put in a new hard drive and a new OS, I downloaded Firefox.

I will never use explorer again on that machine. It is a virus magnet

 

[Modbert]

Rather than make an entire new thread.

BBC News - France joins Germany warning against Internet Explorer

Doesn't look good for Microsoft in Europe thus far.