Department of Homeland Security Urges you to Stop Using Internet Explorer

US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) has issued yet another warning about ongoing fundamental flaws in Internet Explorer. They recommend the following possible steps to mitigate the problem:

1. Disable Active scripting and ActiveX, Apply the Outlook Email Security Update, Read and send email in plain text format, Maintain updated anti-virus software, and Do not follow unsolicited links!

or

2. Use a different web browser

I vote for #2! Check out related stories from Yahoo News and Wired News.

If you are a Macintosh user, you are probably using Safari anyway, and Windows users have a much better browser than IE available: Firefox.

If you are still using Internet Explorer you don't realize what you are missing. Switch to a modern browser today!