Yet another virus is making the rounds. All the gory details may be found in the link below.

One paragraph jumped out at me:

The virus does not affect Macintosh versions of Internet Explorer, nor does it spread through such non-Microsoft browsers as Mozilla and Opera.

That's right. If you don't want to lose any sleep over this, all you have to do is use a browser other than Internet Explorer.

I use both Mozilla and Opera, and find them to work quite well. In addition, both are free, although it is necessary to pay $39.95 for Opera if you wish to make an ad box go away.

Both have several features lacking in Internet Explorer, most notably a pop-up blocker.