Being in the automotive industry I'm having the good fortune (?) of having several weeks off. Hopefully that won't lead to more permanent time off. Unfortunately my wife's job is preventing her from taking any vacation time through the end of the year (sigh). That means this week I'm enjoying spending more time on-line that normal.

This morning I stumbled upon this Internet Explorer security warning.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/111811

"The major press outlets are abuzz this morning with news of a major new security flaw that affects all versions of Internet Explorer from IE5 to the latest beta of IE8. The attack has serious and far-reaching ramifications -- and they're not just theoretical attacks. In fact, the flaw is already in wide use as a tool to steal online game passwords, with some 10,000 websites infected with the code needed to take advantage of the hole in IE.

Virtually all security experts (as well as myself) are counseling users to switch to any other web browser -- none of the others are affected, including Firefox, Chrome, and Opera -- at least for the time being"

I'm a pretty typical computer user - certainly not an expert - and am wondering what those who know more about these things thing about it.

I've used Firefox and like it, but found using bookmarks in it kind of a pain.

Today I loaded Google Chrome for the first time (using it now), and I've got to say I'm impressed so far. Simple. Very fast.

A few years back I had my work laptop messed up enough by malware that it needed to be re-imaged. It had Norton's security software on it and still got trashed. Since then I've been VERY careful about which sites I visit.

Your thoughts?

Ken