From YMNews.com on Friday, July 2, 2004
in the "Announcements" Category.
The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team recommends using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer for security reasons. The particular virus initiated this week initiates pop-up ads on home and office computers, and allows keystroke analysis of user information. The target is believed to be credit card numbers. Alternative browsers such as Mozilla or Netscape may not protect users if they invoke ActiveX control or HTML rendering engines.
