Internet Explorer Vulnerability

Following concern about the Heartbleed bug, there has been an additional significant announcement from Microsoft about a security vulnerability in ALL versions of Internet Explorer. See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/security/2963983 for full details.

This is a pretty major vulnerability as it could enable someone to execute arbitrary code on someones PC. It does however require a user to visit a website that has been crafted to exploit this vulnerability. Users of Internet Explorer browsers should be especially vigilant about visiting unknown sites, phishing and following unrecognised links in emails or instant messages.

Both the US and UK governments have provided advice and are recommending that until the problem is resolved you should use an alternative browser, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

Safe4  also encourages our users to find an alternative to Internet Explorer until Microsoft has issued an update.

Please note this is in addition to our recommendation in a recent blog post to upgrade from Microsoft XP.