{"id":2618,"date":"2004-06-25T04:55:57","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/25\/websurfers-urged-to-avoid-using-ie\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:04:17","slug":"websurfers-urged-to-avoid-using-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/25\/websurfers-urged-to-avoid-using-ie\/","title":{"rendered":"Websurfers urged to avoid using IE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow &#8212; another <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/3840101.stm\" title=\"Web browser flaw prompts warning\">big reason to move to a better browser<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Users are being told to avoid using Internet Explorer until Microsoft patches a serious security hole in it.<\/p>\n<p>  The loophole is being exploited to open a backdoor on a PC that could let criminals take control of a machine.<\/p>\n<p>  The threat of infection is so high because the code created to exploit the loophole has somehow been placed on many popular websites.<\/p>\n<p>  Experts say the list of compromised sites involves banks, auction and price comparison firms and is growing fast.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds pretty nasty to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Voices&#8221; by Bedrock from the album <em>Essential Chillout<\/em> (2000, 9:09).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users are being told to avoid using Internet Explorer until Microsoft patches a serious security hole in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}