The British Department of Health recommends that its National Health Service staff stop using Internet Explorer 6 without a necessary security patch. The British move is part of a general concern in Europe about Internet Explorer security following a wave of attacks against Google and other companies carried out by exploiting an invalid pointer reference. Germany and France have also advised their citizens to stop using unpatched versions of Internet Explorer. Windows 7 includes IE 8, the latest version of the Web browser.
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The British Department of Health has issued a bulletin to its National
Health Service staff recommending that they stop using Internet Explorer 6
until the necessary security patch can be downloaded, as part of a wider European
pullback from the browser due to security concerns.
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