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In response to a “serious security flaw” that led to the hacking of several e-mail accounts, the French government has issued a nationwide recommendation to stop using Internet Explorer, and switch to either Firefox or Google Chrome for a more secure web browsing experience.

Microsoft has issued a response, stating that the Germans—the country responsible for the initial recommendation to stop using their popular web browser—had “over-reacted about the threat posed by the vulnerability, and that general users were not at risk.”

However, while the French and German responses certainly don’t fare well for Microsoft’s increasingly dwindling share of the web browsing market, Graham Cluley, a senior security advisor at Sophos, says: “Every browser has its security issues, so switching may remove this current risk but could expose you to another.”

For more information on this topic, check out Telegraph.

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