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A major security hole discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer last week has become a golden marketing opportunity for alternative browsers such as Mozilla and Opera unaffected by the flaw.

To avoid falling prey to a concerted attack aiming to steal logon information and passwords, some security experts advised Web surfers to turn off some Internet Explorer (IE) features or switch browsers as the best immediate fix. Unknown attackers who had taken control of several Web servers used the flaw last week to install a remote access program, dubbed JS.Scob.Trojan, onto the PCs of visitors to those sites.

"I hope that Microsoft will come up with a patch soon," said Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the Internet Storm Center, a site that monitors network threats. "Until they do, you basically have two choices: Disable JavaScript in Internet Explorer or install another browser."
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i refuse to use it for browsing... Hell i only use it when i have to internally for testing webpages..
Safari rocks (and is going to get hellish better with 10.4) hell and there are so many others now like firefox :)

I rarely ever use IE too. Infact, it's not even in my dock anymore.

Crypt you use IE because it has such high quality history editing. I speak not from experience..... <coughs>

I just wish that Apple would make a version of Safari for Windows.  I have to sit on my shitty PC all day with Microshit IE on it with Microshit Windows.  At least my homepage is set to Apple.com![/size]

The day safari goes Windows is the day hell freezes over for good.

Hey, Apple makes AppleWorks for Windows, as well as Quicktime and the iPods.  So I don't think it would be too far-fetched for them to make Safari for Windows.[/size]

It is because it would be next to impossible to break into internet browser market. Windows makes their own. Asking for safari is like asking for the finder application to be ported....that of course is a bit crazy.

w00t!  OS X for my Dell PC![/size][/b]

No GhostSniper....no

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

i dunno, i use firefox because i don't need the email thing bundled in with the browser (mozilla).

The fewer the feature the better? ......on windows

If that's the case, then I better trash Windows and find a good copy of DOS to install.[/size]

You're starting to get it GS.

WHell.. I still use Netscape for most of my browsing  www.netscape.com

Best idea a Windows user can ever have ;)

ps... id eer on the side of firefox. but i still don't think it matches up to safari!

Firefox is the best option. Just for the record. But as BFG said it isn't much of one.

the reason i don't want the email app bundled in is because A) i never really use email, B) i already have a seperate email app.
and yeah, firefox still sucks. why don't people who make PC apps try to put a sexy interface or something on it. it's just ugly. and the download manager doesn't let you continue downloads after you close firefox...whats the point in having a pause button.

People don't know design nice apps because a app can only look as good as the OS.