The Register: CERT Recommends Anything but IE Jun 29, 2004, 10 :45 UTC (27 Talkback[s]) (9143 reads) (Other stories by John Oates)
"US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed.
"A statement on the CERT site said: 'There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites.' CERT otherwise recommends users to set security settings to high and disable JavaScript..."
