Tech: Virus Designed to Steal Windows Users’ Data (TechNews.com): There are more than a few Microsofties fuming over this announcement. However, Mozilla and Firefox do work well. I’m currently using Firefox as my web browser, although WebCT performs better in IE. Firefox also supports many free extensions that are too handy to ignore, like access to BugMeNot. Opera is quirky and displays ads in the free version. Netscape installs AOL helpers applications, and should be avoided by non-AOL users. “CERT recommends that Explorer users consider other browsers that are not affected by the attack, such as Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera. Mac, Linux and other non-Windows operating systems are immune from this attack. For people who continue to use the Internet Explorer, CERT and Microsoft recommend setting the browser’s security settings to ‘high,’ but that can impair some browsing functions.”
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