Microsoft: If Internet Explorer Can’t Be Secure, Then No Browser Can!

Wash your hands regularly to avoid human contaminants, and ditch Internet Explorer to avoid the web variant. That's long been my hygenic regimen.

You remember all that great free software that came with the hidden cost of also installing something you didn't ask for? Well, just when I thought I had long put all that old early 21st. Century malware and spyware mess behind me by switching from Internet Explorer to the ever popular Firefox Browser, it's ba'ack... Only this time, Microsoft isn't the victim--it's the culprit.

According to the Washington Post, a recent Microsoft Windows Update surreptitiously installed an unsolicited Firefox extension which is "difficult -- if not dangerous -- to remove...".

Annoyances.org, reports that "this update adds to Firefox one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities present in all versions of Internet Explorer: the ability for Web sites to easily and quietly install software on your PC."

If you're a Window's and Firefox user, to see if you got it, and how to remove it, visit Annoyances.org.

About Jeff M. Fischbach

Jeff Michael Fischbach is founder and President of SecondWave Information Systems (SecondWave.com), a consulting firm specializing in Forensic Technology. Since 1994, he has served as a board member and technology adviser to numerous professional organizations and corporations. Mr. Fischbach has been engaged as a litigation consultant and Forensic Examiner, offering expert advice and oversight on matters involving intellectual property, computers, information systems, satellite, tracking and wireless communications technologies. He has advised law enforcement, foreign government representatives, judges, lawyers and the press.