This is a public service announcement. For all of my family and friends that ask for technical help whenever your computer gets a virus, worm, spyware, adware, messed up IM, or anything else, I am asking you to please go and download Mozilla Firefox . This is as much for my sanity as it is for yours. Internet Explorer has a ton of software bugs, and when 95% of the world runs buggy software, some jackass is probably going to come along and take advantage of that fact. Whenever said person comes along and infests the web with the latest virus, everyone starts swearing up and down at their computer. Many times, IE is to blame for allowing
![[What david-s.net looks like in IE]](http://david-s.net/images/posts/dsn-ie.jpg)
My other major reason for asking you to ditch Internet Explorer is because IE still doesn’t render PNG images correctly. If my site looks like the thumbnail to the left, you need to upgrade to Mozilla Firefox so you can see my site in all its blue xhtml/CSS glory! (Plus, I have a few little surprises that will only work in PNG and CSS compliant browsers like the Mozilla family, Safari, and Opera.)
Of course, the even better solution is to trade in your Windows PC for a Mac , and just use Safari or Camino
Update: Well, there’s another virus on the loose infecting web servers and then propagates to web surfers using Internet Explorer . Once again, if you’re unlucky enough to be using IE, get the fix now!