Brian Krebs | Washington, DC | March 27

WaPo - Security Fix - More than 200 Web sites -- many of them belonging to legitimate businesses -- have been hacked and seeded with code that tries to take advantage of a unpatched security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to install hostile code on Windows computers when users merely visit the sites. More at the link, which is a must read post. And more here and here.

I do not understand why anyone uses Microsoft Internet Explorer. I know change is difficult, but Firefox is so vastly better. Unimaginably better. And probably a thousand times safer. If you do nothing this year, take Firefox out for a test drive. You can thank me later.