Time to start using Firefox again...

Microsoft has issued a maximum severity rating of ‘critical’ for all versions of the browser and encourages all users to deploy the update - which is a piece of specially written computer code - as soon as it becomes available.

Due to the flaw, ‘Trojan horse’ viruses can be injected into the software of millions of computers, allowing criminals to remotely access and operate them.

Hackers in China are at the centre of the cyber attack, which is the most serious in the history of Microsoft’s operating system. As many as 10,000 websites have already been compromised, according to anti-virus software producer Trend Micro.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...computers.html

God, I use Internet Explorer 7 all the time. It's my default browser...

Hahaha, it's ours at work. I would love a virus to give me a few days off.

same here but ive liked firefox better

I tried deleting IE off my computer but the icon kept on popping back up V_V

If you've downloaded the critical update, what's the problem? They fixed the flaw. You should have downloaded this yesterday. If not, do it.

I heart Firefox.

I heart Firefox.

I heart FireFox as well. IE8 Beta 2, though, is looking very promising. Beta 1 was awful.

If you've downloaded the critical update, what's the problem? They fixed the flaw. You should have downloaded this yesterday. If not, do it.

It's not enough...

I downloaded that patch, set my Internet Explorer security to high, and set my Avast On-access scanner to the highest alert, and guess what happened to my Internet Explorer today? It crashed, two times!
Luckily, when I scanned my computer for the trojan, I managed to find it. It was hidden in the temporary internet files for Internet Explorer.
So right after that incident, I promptly copied all my favs to the Firefox I had installed a bit ago, set my preferences, and now Firefox is my default browser.

I will wait until Microsoft fixes this problem, and even then I probably won't revert back to Explorer.

You probably contracted the Trojan Horse before the update was released.

I'm not disagreeing with you, though. I think Firefox > IE in so many ways and Firefox is my main browser.

It was in temp? Oh noez! Surely you clear your temporary internet files after every session?

If you're safe and clever in your surfing habits, security, and how you run your computer, then you can stick with IE. I don't see why you'd want to, but theoretically you could. Tell the truth, I'd prefer to use IE over FF. I find FF to be a horribly clunky and slow browser, uninituitive to use, and feature-poor - for all the praise about features, you'd have thought that they'd come as standard. I've made a number of friends at Uni who run FF, and they've all been mightily impressed with the features that Maxthon comes with as standard, but which FF is sorely lacking in. Either way, I'd probably use FF over Opera... now there's a waste of space.

And if it came with the features I use in Maxthon, Chrome would be my default without a question but, alas, it does not.

Just my two pence.

So I've been using Firefox lately, and it has been running smoothly, yet I've encountered some annoyances. For example, I close my browser often, and every so often an error window appears. It says that Firefox is running but not responding, and I have to restart my computer every time to get Firefox to open again. Now I just got my computer last summer, and it's really fast, yet Firefox sometimes stops responding. I was wondering if anybody else has encountered these problems with Mozilla, as when these type of annoyances occur, it makes me want to switch to Internet Explorer despite the possible trojans.

I don't know about you guys but we mac people don't have that problem.... and for the record, I use Firefox

im having a problem with the xml core code updat5e it does not want to install right when i installed it 10 times allready

I don't know about you guys but we mac people don't have that problem.... and for the record, I use Firefox

Dude, it has nothing to do with Macs, I wasn't talking about trojans and viruses...