New Google Analytics for Blogger.

I took a peer into this blog's stats, and well, I'm slightly concerned with my audience:

Internet Explorer	43%
Firefox	32%
Safari	11%
Chrome	9%

Really? 43% of you use IE? Okay, let's go over the browsers.

HTML compatibility (note that since Chrome uses Apple's webkit, Safari will likely score very similarly to Chrome, but I don't have Safari installed):

Chrome 5.0.379.99	197
Opera 10.60	159
Firefox 3.6	139
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001	27

ACID3 test for HTML 4.01, ECMAscript and CSS3 compatibility:

Opera 10.60	100
Chrome 5.0.379.99	98
Firefox 3.6	94
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001	12

Then there was CasSecWest's PWN2OWN Challenge, where in 2009 and 2010, no one bothered to take on Chrome:

"There are bugs in Chrome but they’re very hard to exploit. The’ve got that sandbox model that’s hard to get out of... and you have no permissions to do anything. You need another bug to get out of the sandbox. Now you need two bugs and two exploits. That raises the bar."

Safari and IE were defeated within minutes.

Now, if you're going to persist with using IE, I have to insist that you use IE8 and you download Microsoft Security Essentials Beta for the next version of MSE, as it integrates tightly for added protection for those especially using IE.

Of course, nothing is perfect and viruses WILL GET THROUGH at some point. Trust me on this; I've been using the internet for 15 years and I've gone through 5 infections of various types and levels of infections.

And for goodness sakes...change your passwords even if just once a year. It's okay to use just a handful of passwords between all the sites you use, so long as you follow three rules: make them as long as you possibly can but at least 12 characters, make them easy to remember and mix numbers and letters. If you get emails warning you of a password reset, don't click on the email link. Instead, type in the web address yourself and try to log in. If you cannot log in, you must immediately go through all the other websites that share the same login password, and change them to a new one. Once you do that, update your virus scanner's definitions, then scan your entire computer. If it's clean, you're good. If it's infected, you need to clean the infection, then go back to those websites and change your passwords one more time.