Wired reports
But last Friday, in response to the latest security exploit involving Microsoft products, the usually staid U.S. government’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, published a warning strongly suggesting that users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer should switch to another Web browser, due to “significant vulnerabilities” in technologies included in IE.
…downloads of the browsers hit an all-time high on Thursday, from the usual 100,000 or so downloads on a normal day to more than 200,000.
Microsoft released a fix today, but the damage has already been done.