Well lets face it, the majority of servers on the Internet are powered by a non Microsoft OS, but the majority of users browsing the Internet are using Internet Explorer. The reports of some high traffic sites being hacked and distributing malicious code to visitors is probably going to infect most of the users running IE, but applying the patches from Microsoft and keeping your AV software updated should help reduce any risk of infection.
Since there are a lot less sites powered by IIS, compared to Apache the issue is not as bad as it could be, but all it takes is a few servers running IIS and distributing this code to infect all the visitors running IE.
I'm sure the various AV vendors will have updated their signatures now, but it might also be a good idea to use an alternative browser rather than IE. I can't help thinking if we went back to the core of the system - the design - we'd not have these problems.
As most would agree, to stop the constant supply of issues relating to MS products, the entire OS would have to be re-built, with more limits in place with regards to access and such so that exploiting these types of vulnerabilities does not allow for complete access to a system.
A system is only as secure as its weakest point and the weak point in this equation is Windows.
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