This Is An Alert To Anyone That Is Still Using Windows XP and has Not Heard The System Is Under Attack Warns Microsoft

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This is a very short article to warn everyone to pass the word that Hackers have used a hole in the Internet explorer to grab information.The massive attack has Microsoft scrambling to find a fix for it.

The Microsoft company has told folks to uninstall the IE browser and replace it with another browser.May I refer you to my browser which has served me well,so I am sorta biased.I use the Mozilla Nightly browser that nightly updates itself.I never have problems because it is always kicking butt with the bugs gone nightly.The neat little add on called cookie killer kills the cookies as you exit the pages..Kinda like pulling the teeth on Internet tracking hounds.

The hole has left any windows XP system compromised to hacking of all kinds of information.Millions of business's,medical places and a plethora of very important places have all been hacked in a joint hackers effort to steal some very pertinent personal information on thousands of folks.

There is a way to turn off Internet Explorer if you can not find where to uninstall it.
Go to the search in the lower left hand corner of your menu and type IE uninstall or IE turn off.It will bring up a line with options asking if you wish to turn off Microsoft functions.
click yes and uncheck thee box marked Internet Explorer.Then OK.

It will not uninstall Internet explorer,but it will turn it off from running.Please install Mozilla or any of the other browsers first or you will not be able to do anything on the internet.

If you have anyone who can download the version 24 thru version 29mozilla into a thumb drive you can then plug the thumb drive into your computer and load it safely without fear of messing with running your Internet Explorer to get another browser online.

Please note:this problem is a hole in the IE browser and your antivirus will not be of any use to you in this case.It will be like trying to stop a leak in a boat by putting a paddle over it.
A paddle is useful for moving the boat,but wont stop the leak.Antivirus is useful for stopping a virus,but won't stop a hole that causes a leak.There is no fix yet for the IE leak.

To my friends out there,We are under attack from those of us on the net who give us a bad reputation and a worse name.

take care folks

RJP

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