Warning: serious Internet Explorer problem

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Our office computers use IE and we can't download any other programs. Hmph. Well, it's THEIR computers not mine!! Thanks for the notice!! I'm going to email a link to that article to the company.
 

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Fozzie Bear said:
Our office computers use IE and we can't download any other programs. Hmph. Well, it's THEIR computers not mine!! Thanks for the notice!! I'm going to email a link to that article to the company.
In the meantime it might be as well to avoid typing any sensitive information into the machine :smile:
 

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True dat. I'll leave out all the romance stuff. Or did you mean "sensitive" in some other way? :wink:
 

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IE isn't any good, anyway... I've been using Firefox for quite a while now. The second I found out about all the adblocking stuff it had, I was sold. :flirt:
 

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Fozzie Bear said:
True dat. I'll leave out all the romance stuff. Or did you mean "sensitive" in some other way? :wink:
Your secret life as a bear might be blackmail material...
 

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jediX said:
IE isn't any good, anyway... I've been using Firefox for quite a while now. The second I found out about all the adblocking stuff it had, I was sold. :flirt:
Indeed. But as long as the average user is content to use IE, problems like this will continue to arise.

Of course, if everyone switched over to say Opera, we'd doubtless be plagued by Opera hacks...
 

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What's depressing is that I wrote a term paper about this...
 

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Further information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3840101.stm


If you want to check whether your PC has been infected:

- Click the Start button and then click on Search
- Make sure you choose the option to look through all files and folders
- Search for files called Kk32.dll and Surf.dat
- If infected use up to date anti-virus software to remove the malicious code
 
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