An unusual thing done by German and French agencies that they posted a notice about Internet Explorer on there website about the security issues and advise computer users to use any other browser.
This notice give boost to MS competitor. A Norwegian software company state that the number of Opera browser download made in Germany doubled to approx 18,000 a day.
Germany's Federal Office for Information Security and France’s CERTA agency advised people to use an alternative browser because of Internet Explorer security issues.
Malicious code is created to affect the computer and they make use of the exposure of Internet Explorer 6. Using Internet Explorer hackers could remotely run malicious program on windows PC’s. It is required for the people using IE6 to adjust the security setting to HIGH.
Microsoft representative said that the company has been talking to French and Germany agencies to provide accurate and up to date information regarding this issue.
Microsoft also said to upgrade IE to the latest version i.e. Internet Explorer 8.
source:- http://hubpages.com/hub/Microsofts-Browser-Under-Fire
thanx the information shared wil b really useful for all internet users
ReplyDelete.....IE reallly sux..
MOZILA or OPERA r cool