Trojans and Privacy and Security: Internet Explorer Users Warned

[Guest guest]

Please look at this browser and consider changing to Mozilla. From

what I have read, it will be much harder to pick up viruses and trojan

horses.

 

Once I got used to it, I like it very much.

 

Frank

 

 

, " califpacific "

<califpacific> wrote:

> June 28, 2004

>

> Internet Explorer Users Warned: CERT Recommends Use Of Non-IE

> Browsers To Protect Personal Information

>

> Privacy and Security

>

>

> " A new Internet virus has surfaced that allows hackers to steal

> passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information when

> someone merely visits an infected Web site, government computer

> security experts warned this week.

>

> Hundreds of Web sites have been targeted by the virus, which exploits

> flaws in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Internet software, according to an

> alert issued Thursday by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team

> (US-CERT), a division of the Department of Homeland Security.

>

> Infected sites were programmed to connect people using the Microsoft

> Internet Explorer browser to a Web site that contains code allowing

> hackers to record what users type, such as passwords and credit card

> and Social Security numbers.

>

> The code then e-mails that information to the anonymous attackers.

> 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. "

>

> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

>

> Brian Krebs - WashingtonPost