12:43 AM
Internet For those hapless few still using IE...

..yet another IE exploit, this one specifically aimed at catching banking info and logins. From the Internet Storm Center: New Scam Targets Bank Customers. That page also has a scanning tool to detect the nasty stuff and disable it. (Caveat: I have not tried this program, I can't offer any help with it but it is a trustworthy program since it's recommended by the ISC.)

Links to a variety of non-IE safe, secure browsers can be found here (or here if LJ is still being plagued by 13 year olds who need their hands slapped). There's also a great article at Open for Business on switching from IE and OE to Firefox and Thunderbird, it walks thru the details of how to install both and import your favorites, email and mail settings into the appropriate program.

The BBC and a couple other places are reporting that CERT "recommends using browsers other than Internet Explorer", I don't think anyone has an actual cite of where CERT said that but it's still a good recommendation. :)

And for anyone who had troubles with Firefox v0.9, there is a new version with the worst of the bugs fixed (including the never-ending installing extensions one that Dargie fell afoul of), v0.9.1 is now available (and Dargie, I completely understand if you don't want to mess with it yet! :))

I have a nasty sore throat, please think soothing thoughts for it, it hurts like the devil and my ears ache too.

(and is it just me or is LJ down a whole lot of the time over the last couple weeks??? I know they were having server problems but for the last couple weeks, it takes forever to get in and tonight it gets a bit of the page and then tells me "document has no data". Maybe they should go back to invites and slow down the new user rate increase until they can get stablized on servers and load and all that...)