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Change to a browser other than Internet Explorer.
The US Government Agency CERT (with The Department of Homeland Security) is advising to USE AN ALTERNATIVE BROWSER. (listing a few below) |
There are a number of security flaws within Internet Explorer that have existed for a number of years, and have gone unchecked. These flaws allow the "bad guys" to get information ranging from your credit card numbers, to usernames and passwords to your banking sites. | |
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Firefox is a GREAT browser, with excellent standards compatability. Although not even at a 1.0 release, it is my personal recommendation for use. You may also want to look into Thunderbird, which is the companion email client project. |
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Mozilla is the project that contains a full suite of internet utilities, a modern browser the base of Gecko(the engine that many other browsers, including Firefox are based on), an email client, and a wysiwyg html editor. |
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Opera is a commercial browser that is ad supported (not spyware) unless purchased. It is a light, fast, capable browser, and probably the fastest modern browser for windows. |