IE Gets Firefox into Trouble
Here’s something else for you to worry about. If you have both Internet Explorer and Firefox (version 2 or later) installed on your PC you could be vulnerable to the latest ‘Zero Day’ exploit, according to a security expert reported on CNET News. It’s a bit complicated; I’ll only say this once, so pay attention.
Apparently there’s a newly discovered security loophole in Internet Explorer, and if someone browsing an infected website using IE, clicks on a link it could instruct Firefox to download and execute some malicious code. It’s all a bit theoretical at the moment but the potential is there. There is a manual fix – I hope to have more on that when I’ve checked it out – and Mozilla and Microsoft are bound to be working on the problem as we speak, so I wouldn’t be too concerned, just avoid clicking links on dodgy websites if you can…
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