Following the news last week of a series of hack attacks on Google and other companies, the governments of France and Germany both issued warnings on Friday suggesting that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is too dangerous to use. Microsoft on Thursday acknowledged that a vulnerability in Internet Explorer was one of several attack mechanisms used in the attacks on Google and others, causing it to issue a security advisory on the topic that day.

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