The Register: CERT Recommends Anything but IE

“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…”

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