Flashes of Panic

I know, I know. I keep harping on this. But it’s increasingly important. Dump Internet Explorer. Download something, anything, else. I recommend Safari, Mozilla, Firefox, or Camino. Why? Well, take a look at this. Here’s the short summary: yesterday, a large number of fairly popular websites were “compromised” (cracked and, essentially, booby-trapped.) Everyone who visited them after the compromise was exploited through a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer. In the case of the browsers, “…different executables were observed. These trojan horse programs include keystroke loggers, proxy servers and other back doors providing full access to the infected system.” In other words, you’re in pretty tough shape.

Except, needless to say, the people who weren’t using Internet Explorer.

Imagine, for a minute, someone installing an I-beam across the interstate. For various reasons, its height is such that everyone driving an SUV hits it and their vehicle is wrecked. But the Civics and Saturns and Neons go zipping on past, quite safely. IE is an SUV. Why keep driving it?

Now playing: The Theatre And Its Double from Forget Yourself by The Church