Internet Explorer Security Alert

 Dear QuestionPoint Users:

You may have seen or heard an announcement recently, regarding a severe security flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser.  Our own OCLC security team has advised us internally to avoid using I.E. for “surfing” but that it is OK to continue using it for applications that “require it”.

Here is what we recommend to our QuestionPoint Chat users until further notice:   If you are a Windows user, who does not use cobrowse, please  use the latest version of Mozilla Firefox while using QuestionPoint, to log in, chat, and to surf the web while finding sites to push to patrons.  Only push sites to patrons also using Firefox or Macs. (You can tell from the patron information what type of browser they are using.)

Cobrowse requires IE, so if you use cobrowse, while it is safe to use IE for logging into chat,  please cobrowse only to sites within your own domain to send to patrons (things like your catalog).  

Microsoft is reporting that over 10,000 websites have already been compromised by this security flaw, so avoiding cobrowsing or page push to any unknown quantity  with patrons is the only way to ensure the integrity of what you are sending, given that you and patron are both using IE if you are cobrowsing.

All other QuestionPoint users may continue to use IE for work within the QuestionPoint application.  Please do not use IE for any websurfing.  
For details about this issue, please visit the following sites
http://secunia.com/advisories/33089/
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/961051.mspx

Once a patch has been issued and vetted, we will alert you. Naturally,  if  your own IT departments are recommending the complete cessation of IE use, you should follow your own advisors’ recommendations until further notice.

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