Urgent: Critical Internet Explorer security flaw

[kcjenkins]

It seems like we've been here so many times before. Security researchers are once again warning about a serious flaw in Internet Explorer that could allow hackers to take over your computer remotely.

You may have heard that last week hackers broke into a Department of Labor website. The hackers reprogrammed the site to target this exact flaw on the computers of anyone who visited.

So, the bottom line is that hackers know about this flaw, and it's being actively exploited. Even up-to-date security software might not protect you. Not good news!

Fortunately, this flaw is a problem only in Internet Explorer 8. I know many of you use other Web browsers, but you probably know someone who still uses IE8. Please pass this warning on to them so their computer isn't compromised.

[Jack from Ohio]

So IE9 or IE10 have the hole patched?

[Guest Taxed]

I believe there is a security update.

Try Firefox or Chrome!

[Catherine]

The only thing I use IE for is Windows Updates (since I at least cannot run the updates on any other browser). Firefox and Chrome for everything else. IE has security flaws one could drive a truck through. Clients who work for defense contractors are often told by their employers that they may NOT use IE at work (and some of them, at home as well) because of recurring security problems.

[Guest Taxed]

The only issue that I ran into with Firefox was constantly adding add-ons to run video's etc. in certain websites like CCH!

Obviously Microsoft will NOT allow anything other that its IE to do the windows update, so we have to have it for that.