This is important to all of you who are using Internet Explorer to carry out internet banking.

It also explains why and how my colleague got hacked just last week and found to have password stealing and backdoor trojans on his laptops. And yes, he was using the internet for banking. Luckily, we caught the trojans early.

For those who missed my post on keeping safe on the net, here's the link.

How to be safe if you use Internet Banking

http://blog.thestar.com.my/permalink.asp?cat=11&id=20000

For more information on this breaking story on Internet Explorer, see the links below:

Serious security flaw found in IE

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7784908.stm

MS issues brown alert over unpatched IE 7 flaw
One in 500 exposed

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/12/15/ie7_exploits/

For the more technically minded, here's the full low down from microsoft itself:

Microsoft Security Advisory (961051)
Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Published: December 10, 2008 | Updated: December 15, 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/961051.mspx


For now, you are better off switching over to Opera or Firefox as your main browser. Actually, if you use internet banking or any other online secure password access (online shopping, etc), you'll be much safer using the following two browsers:

Opera

http://www.opera.com/

Firefox

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Keep safe, live long and prosper.

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