Basically, don't visit sites you don't trust.<

IE8 is still far from ready for general release, it still has some serious issues which have not been resolved.<

Originally posted by RichardKinser
Basically, don't visit sites you don't trust.

Well, there's a problem even with sites you may trust : they may be subject to infection as well. A while ago we had a similar 'outbreak', where people where infected through the official Asus website. (link)
My own sites running on Apache hosting were infected a while ago, through a root-access hack at my provider. I was not alarmed until a friend of mine tipped me to check for additional FTP accounts. They left the entire site intact, but injected hidden iframes and javascript stuff in tons of pages. So, even sites you trust may be hazardous to visit using an insecure browser.
I currently refuse to use IE, and use Firefox 3 instead. Too bad I cannot use that approach here at work, as they've implemented several IE only webapplications....<

Just opposite here, Malwares are not "browser" specific. What happened at you is Malware which is used to create Botnets. Beside I refuse to use a browser claiming most secure while having found triple critical security flaws than it's IE equivalent in just a year with 14 "new versions" to fix it.

Then try opera, or safari or even google chrome. At least until ms finds a fix or fixes it.<

Originally posted by MaD2ko0l
time to boot up the mac?

Or use SandboxIE, or surf via a VM you can toss out if it gets hosed, or do any of a number of things.
The long and the short is that all OSs and all browsers have security holes. Period.
And the biggest one is sometimes PEBKAC.<