German Government: "Stop Using Firefox!"

[Arthur]

After the gleeful schadenfreude posted here when the German government warned against using Microsoft Internet Explorer, I'm surprised no-one posted last Friday's monitum urging users to stop using Firefox! (Apols if I missed a post somewhere.)

UPDATE: German government to users: Stop using Firefox!

The German government has issued a stern warning to web surfers telling them not to use Firefox because the browser contains a critical security vulnerability.

BürgerCERT, part of the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology, is advising users to stop using Firefox until Mozilla can push a patch out to users to fix the vulnerability that it contains which could be exploited by hackers to run malicious code on users’ computers.

-- ZDnet

German government urges users to scrap Firefox 3.6


(03-22) 10:50 PDT -- Germany's federal computer security agency has recommended that users dump Mozilla's newest Firefox browser until the company patches a critical vulnerability later this month.

The alert was posted last Friday by Buerger-CERT, a project of the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology, which is known by its German initials of BSI. "Buerger-CERT recommends the use of [an] alternative browser until Mozilla has released Firefox version 3.6.2," a translation reads.

Buerger-CERT's warning was prompted by Mozilla's confirmation last Thursday that Firefox 3.6 contains a critical vulnerability that could be used by attackers to hijack a Windows PC.

-- SFGate

Do goose and gander get equal play?

 

[boswald]

"Stop using IE!"
"Stop using Windows!"

 

[kwaggawerner]

Statement is now null and void... since the 3.6.2 update fixes the flaw.

 

[Creag]

Every time a hacker successfully finds a flaw - and it is as inevitable as your next breath - in Chrome, Fox, Opera, IE, Safari and the next browser, are they going to act decisively to move their entire country to a new browser? Sounds like crisis management to me and loads of knee jerk reaction.