Firefox users beware?

[Brian Turner]

A bad sector on my hard drive has forced me to reformat - I've decided to do a full install of XP, from scratch, rather that "upgrade" by installing Windows 98, then Windows XP.

I logged onto www.microsoft.com, and went to support to get critical updates - when I noticed the following:



Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (KB832894)
Download size: 2.8 MB
Identified security issues in Internet Explorer could allow an attacker to compromise a Windows-based system. For example, an attacker could run programs on your computer while you view a Web page. This affects all computers with Internet Explorer installed (even if you don’t run Internet Explorer as your Web browser). After you install this item, you may need to restart your computer. Read more...


Does this mean that Firefox users remain vulernable to flaws in IE - even if IE is not being run?

As a side note - I don;t know why the hell it's happening, but I installed McAfee before going online - and since I began installing the critical updates I've been getting lots of virus detects - sd worm versions h and i. Not impressed. Only visited my ISP website (default explorer address) and then microsoft.