German government warns users off Internet Explorer
The German government has urged the public to stop using Internet Explorer after Microsoft admitted a bug in its web browser.
The German government has urged
the public to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer after the company
admitted a bug.
Microsoft said that the bug makes PCs vulnerable to hacker attacks. Computer
virus creators, suchj as the criminals behind the Poison Ivy trojan, can exploit
the security hole in Internet Explorer to take control of PCs that visit a
malicious website.
The German government's Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, said
it was aware of targeted attacks and that web surfers could be easily lured to a
website where hackers had planted viruses.
"A fast spreading of the code has to be feared," the German government said.
The BSI advised all Internet Explorer users to switch to an alternative
browser until the manufacturer has released a security update.
The flaw was spotted by Luxembourg-based security expert Eric Romang, when
his PC was infected by Poison Ivy last week.
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