Looks like Microsoft's efforts to minimise the marketing damage done by a seemingly endless string of exploits of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser have been dealt a further blow. The (apparently) non-partisan german computer security organisation, the German Federal Office for Information Security (or BSI - roughly equivalent to the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team or CERT which issued a similar warning a few weeks ago ), has recommended that "users should switch from Internet Explorer to Mozilla or Opera" due to extreme security concerns.      read more...

USA Today, America's mass-market national newspaper, has printed a remarkably accurate article which describes some of the many ways unsuspecting users of Microsoft's Windows software can be used and abused by nearly anyone on the 'net...