A Good Reason to Use Firefox (Internet Explorer Virus)

Posted December 16th, 2008 by Jenn Sierra

AccountingWeb is reporting:

“Security researchers are warning that serveral thousand websites are taking advantage of a ‘zero-day’ vulnerability spotted in Internet Explorer…Chinese gamers appear to be the main target for the virus writers, but pornography sites are also reported to be among the 6,000 infected websites documented by Trend Micro and other security experts…” (more)

WaPo’s latest update reads,

“Browser bug has yet to be fixed, and is spreading rapidly.”

Want to be safe? Use another browser, like Firefox, or Google Chrome.

 

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4 Responses to “A Good Reason to Use Firefox (Internet Explorer Virus)”

  1. Buffoon
    January 4th, 2009 - 4:50 pm

    Funny you should mention Firefox.
    Its what I use and recently I was forced to use a machine that only had Explorer… no viruses but Explorer had everything centered on my blog but looked fine in Firefox….

    never ends huh?

  2. forthardknox
    January 4th, 2009 - 7:16 pm

    Nope, never ends.

  3. Everette Munroe
    January 11th, 2009 - 11:09 am

    Is it possible to get the virus by leaving the Internet Explorer status set to online and Using Firefox for browsing

  4. Jenn Sierra
    January 11th, 2009 - 12:11 pm

    Thanks for the quesstion, Everette. From what I’ve read, it would depend on whether or not the site you left you IE on was under attack.

    Although I’ve not yet read any report of Microsoft releasing a patch for the virus, there are reports that AVG 8 may provide protection from it: http://www.istockanalyst.com/mobile/viewarticle/articleid/2887715

    I’m a new fan of AVG, but I’d still recommend using Firefox or some other browser like Google Chrome (which has also received good ratings) whenever possible.