Latest Version of MyDoom Exploits New IE Flaw

techentin writes " CNN Money is reporting a new and improved MyDoom variant which is spread by a hyperlink in email. Clicking the link connects the user to an infected machine, which exploits a recently discovered buffer overflow in Internet Explorer. McAfee has a more detailed description. Is this yet another good reason for running Firefox?" CNET also has a story.

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Great analogy

[Pan T. Hose]

Okay, I'll grant you that FireFox is probably more secure than IE. But to say it lacks security issues is going a little further than I'd go, myself. In fact, I'd be willing to bet you $10 that it has security issues of it's own. [...] No software is bulletproof. No software lacks security issues.

I am answering only because your comment has been moderated as "Score:5, Insightful." Please let me use a great analogy: I often say that--unlike Bill Gates--I lack money. "To say you lack money is going a little further than I'd go," some people say, "for no person is absolutely poor, no person lacks money." Of course, I don't assert that I have absolutely no money whatsoever. I am only saying that I have considerably less money than Bill Gates. Also, the operating systems and web browsers I use have considerably less security issues than those sold by Bill Gates. No car is absolutely safe, but that is not a good excuse to sell cars which explode every time a butterfly hits the windshield. No sex is absolutely safe for your health but that doesn't make unprotected sex with strangers any smarter. The same goes with software. More pleasant? Convenient? Perhaps. But not any smarter.