Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered

An anonymous reader writes "Several flaws have been uncovered by security firm eEye in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The flaws allow remote compromise of computers running Windows Operating Systems and affect IE, Outlook and possibly other MS software. With the next MS Windows security bulletin release scheduled for June 14, 2005 news sources are reporting that in comparison with the Mozilla Foundation's prompt fix for the recently reported Mozilla 1.0.3 vulnerabilities MS appear to be leaving a large window for the possible malicious exploitation of these flaws."

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Re:IE is not a Browser

[DogDude]

I would, but version 1.0.4 is so full of bugs, that it doesn't even launch on most of our business machines. In fact, I had to take several hours yesterday to remove Firefox from all of our machines, and re-enable IE. We'll try Firefox again in about 6 months, after they've got it working again. But this was a major blow to their credibility (at least in my eyes as a business owner). They released a product, quite simply, without testing it. Check out the Firefox message boards. They're *filled* with big nasty bugs. But as far as security goes, it's *great* now! There's no Internet access whatsoever, making it 100% secure!