Germany's cybersecurity agency has urged the public to ditch Internet Explorer and switch to alternative web browsers amid fears that a flaw in all versions excluding IE 10 has yet to be fixed by Microsoft.
It is noted that the security vulnerability has already been taken advantage by computer attackers as they are able to infect a PC that was used to visit a malicious website thereby, introducing codes to take control of their victims' devices.
Only Internet Explorer 10, which comes with the latest Windows 8 OS, is free from the glitch. Although Microsoft has vowed to solve this issue, it refused to provide a deadline.
Unlike Germany's Federal Office for Information Security, other computer security agencies like US-CERT recommended IE users to heed Microsoft's advice to run EMET 3.0 (Exploit Mitigation Experience Toolkit) for protection.
This is not the first time that Germany's government has told users to stop using arguably the world's most famous web browser. In January 2010, together with several other countries, it urged people to dump IE whilst Microsoft was still working on a patch.
This news is bound to be music to the ears of anti-IE fans, users who agree that Internet Explorer is a piece of crap but cannot see eye to eye whether Firefox or Chrome is finer. By the way, die-hard Apple fans are certain to make a fuss out of this flop by Microsoft.
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