“The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security,” Daniel Emery reports for BBC News.
“The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google’s systems,” Emery reports.
“A spokesman for Microsoft told BBC News that developers for the firm were trying to fix the problem,” Emery reports. “However, this is no easy task. Not only have the firm got to fix the loophole, but they have to ensure it does not create another one and – equally importantly – works on all computers. This is a challenge compounded by the fact they have to fix three different versions of its browser.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Once again, if you have a choice (i.e. no IT doofus standing over your shoulder dictating stupidity) and are still using Internet Explorer, STOP IMMEDIATELY! Go get yourself a real Web browser.
At the very least, send the BBC article to your IT “professionals.”
Seriously. It’s 2010. If you’re still using IE instead of a better, more secure and standards-compliant browser, then you deserve to be devoured by every worm swimming the tubes.
Go Vikings! Beat Dallas!
I have to use IE to run Dynamics CRM as it will not run under any other browser. So I use the IE plugin for FireFox under Parallels, but I assume the bug is still there. I wash after.
What?
The Germans aren’t simply opening a publically-funded government department to help people having trouble with a Microsoft product?
IE? Should have been baned and forbidden since years!
The majority in Germany uses Firefox anyway, but it’s time to reduce IE to single-digits.
Let’s hope other countries follow Germany’s example, eh?
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I have had a few older people ask me about getting IE for their Macs.
These people usually had either not upgraded from OS 9x, 10.1x or were switchers that wanted something familiar as a touch stone.
I simply configure Safari for them and help them adjust.
As for FireFox…I have used it a few times and I can’t see what’s so great about it.
Chrome? Haven’t even bothered to look.
I know there are other Mac browsers out there, but I like Safari. I have to support Safari and it’s part of my ACMT recert requirements.
I recommend Safari to everyone that has a Mac or a PC.
Safari runs great on a PC, much, much better than IE.
It’s funny though, the British press can get BBC right, but can’t bring to type NASA.
They almost always call it Nasa.
And to think these are the people that invented the English language cause me no end to an amusement.
Wonder what Edmund Blackadder would say?
I saw this on Engadget this morning. I sent the link into MDN, but I guess they found it on their own, before reading my email.
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My comment was that more governments should be doing this, rather than catering to IE, such as ours does.
Dunno what Edmund would say, but I hear that his dogsbody has a cunning plan…
The past couple of days I’ve encountered web sites that did not work with Safari, but did with Firefox. That’s why I keep it around on my Mac.
No mercy for the fools that use IE. You deserve everything you get using that useless piece of crap. Safari, Firefox, Opera, CHrome: all free, all nice, all fast and all so much better than IE. Makes you feel kind of dirty even saying it. IE. Maybe microsh*t should change it to Eew.
@Mark S
One peope separated by a common language.
Of course just become one numbskull uses Nasa and not NASA (it isn’t a word) you can’t assume ALL english people are equally lazy. Though, based on my experience with australians, most of the ones I know wouldn’t know the difference. Alas, the top 5% of the intellect curve seems to be getting further and further divorced from the other 95%, which seems to be succumbing more and more to the relentless dumbing down by the media. They seem to be so trusting and willing to trust and questioing nothing. It also may exlpain why so many people use IE.
@Bream Rockmetteller
Ah, but is Baldrick’s plan more cunning than a cunning plan drawn up by a Professor of Cunning at Cambridge University?
(from a scene in the trenches…)
Brulek, I’ve seen this time after time for years from many different writers in the British press.
I have sent them polite emails (polite for me anyway), pointing out the error and a link to NASA’s website so they can see how it’s done.
To me, more unforgivable is to refer to our planet as earth, which is simply dirt, Earth is a planet.
But if we would call our little planet Terra, they’s muck that up to.
I suppose you can’t fix stupid. But I keep on trying and I guess that makes me stupid too.
There is a cunning plan—it’s called grade school English.
WWBD?
What would Blackadder do?
I would like to know what the German government itself is doing about the use of such defective products in its own ministries and departments.
Have they switched browsers? Have they asked their supplier for a refund for having sold them a product that does not perform as intended?
Wakey, wakey! Any consumer groups out there with the backbone to take on M$? Or are we to assume the EU will do it?
Very good point, Ting.
People in the EU seem to have their act together on that sort of thing more than here in the US or Asia for that matter.
“Wonder what Edmund Blackadder would say?”
He wouldn’t have the slightest clue what a Nasa was. There was no such word in the English language in his time, or any of his subsequent times.
AlanAudio
The talk was of the BBC not comprehending Nasa NASA.
PS, MDN, I did give you the heads up to that article yesterday, as a link to the BBC website. Come on, acknowledge!
Well Alan and silverhawk,
I got a clue…time they got one too.
I suppose another good reason to shun the BBC.
God Almighty, I used to love the BBC when I was a kid.
Now it’s torture outside of listening people speak real English.
I’m on Internet Explorer 8 as I’m reading this.
http://www.bing.com When it comes to decisions that matter, Bing & Decide
“I’m on Internet Explorer 8 as I’m reading this.”
how sad for you…