Serious Flaw in Internet Explorer Not Fixed Yet
The latest flaw in Microsoft’s web browser is currently only being exploited to steal game site passwords in China, but your banking passwords and other critical data is just as vulnerable if you’re an IE user.
Besides the common sense precautions– an updated antivirus app, an anti-spyware program, a firewall and a healthy dose of distrust and skepticism– there’s another very effective measure that you can employ to protect your home PC from malicious web sites and your children from inappropriate content.
OpenDNS.com is an open-source Domain Name Server, which is the service that tells your web browser where in the world to find the web site associated with the URL that you just typed into the address bar.
Besides being faster and more reliable than the DNS service provided by your ISP, OpenDNS goes a step further by classifying web sites according to their content. After you configure your PC or router to use the OpenDNS servers, you can quickly set up content filters to block not only web sites trying to steal your bank password but porn, violence, ads and more.
The OpenDNS protections are less likely to be circumvented by your little Einstein and, better yet, the service is free.
The flaw lets criminals commandeer victims machines merely by tricking them into visiting Web sites tainted with malicious programming code. As many as 10,000 sites have been compromised since last week to exploit the browser flaw, according to antivirus software maker Trend Micro Inc.
