Wired News: New Virus May Steal Data

All you Windows Users out there who use IE as their default browser should immediately fix your browser's security settings to High. The worm that is now spreading due to a flaw in IE and IIS that lets random code run on your system and log keystrokes - the purpose being recording your credit card or other sensitive information and replaying it back to a hacker in some remote location. To quote

"Users should be aware that any website, even those that may be trusted by the user, may be affected by this activity and thus contain potentially malicious code," the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned in an Internet alert.

Of course, it always helps to keep your computer updated with the latest security patches released by Microsoft but really, I feel IE needs to get its security act together - let's hope the change in the security model of XP SP2 is the long-awaited cure to IE's security woes.