US and UK Governments Advise Avoiding Internet Explorer Until Bug Fixed

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 28, 2014 @09:32AM from the patch-please dept.

martiniturbide (1203660) writes "Reuters is reporting that 'The U.S. and UK governments on Monday advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers used to launch attacks.' The article states that 'The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team said in an advisory released on Monday that the vulnerability in versions 6 to 11 of Internet Explorer could lead to "the complete compromise" of an affected system.'"

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Don't buy garbage, or set UA header by raymorris · 2014-04-28 09:52 · Score: 1, Redundant

a) Don't buy garbage, stuff that works only in a specific version of a specific browser.
b) 90%+ plus, you can just set the user agent header in Seamonkey, Firefox, or Chrome to SAY it's IE and things work just fine.