Microsoft’s advice regarding the latest Windows vulnerability is so far removed from reality that it’s laughable:

Users should take care not to visit unfamiliar or un-trusted Web sites that could potentially host the malicious code.

Have they never seen a real user surf the web? The whole point of the web is that you can click on links which take you to previously unvisited, potentially interesting sites!

Actually the vulnerability itself is interesting too – opening an image is just about the most innocuous action I can think of. If something that basic can open my computer to malicious code then there’s really no code in Windows that I can trust to be secure.