PSU recommends dumping IE
Penn State U.: Change in Internet browsers recommended
This was originally a story in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education. I can attest to IE’s security flaws. The last time I used IE at home, my entire OS was so flooded with malware that I had to wipe the hard drive and install lindows.
It’s time to check out Firefox, Mozilla’s next generation browser with strong security protections, as well as cool themes and extensions like Sage, an rss reader, ftp client and more!
Over the past several months, considerable attention has been paid to the security problems surrounding Microsoft’s Internet Explorer by the general news media and information technology departments in higher education. The Computer Emergency and Response Team (CERT), Carnegie Mellon University’s federally funded research group formed to deal with security issues on the Internet, has issued numerous vulnerability alerts and recommends that users switch to a different Web browser.