Microsoft Releases Critical IE Patch

Laura Brown writes "Microsoft has released its security software patches for April. The most anticipated is the MS06-013 patch, which fixes several IE bugs, including the "create TextRange ()" vulnerability. Hackers had been exploiting this problem by installing unauthorized software on PCs. "

Meanwhile...

[StevenHenderson]

Firefox users point and laugh...

Re:ActiveX, Java and Flash controls may be impacte

[Tackhead]

> Bundled in with this patch is a change to the behaviour of embedded controls in IE6 on Windows XP, due to the Eolas patent issue. This means that things like Flash navigation or Java widgets might not work without being clicked first to activate. TechWeb have a good article with a summary of the changes, along with some links elswhere.
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>This won't affect IE6 on Windows 2000, and it's worth noting that things like Flash will work just fine in Firefox, Mozilla or Opera on Windows too.

So for the first time in history, IE's more secure out of the box than Firefox and Opera?

"Microsoft: Where information security is the 521,000,001st priority."

A fix was released long ago

[Jugalator]

Download here [browser.org]

OK, OK, so I wanted to be different from those "get Firefox" jokes!

Name change proposal

[Spy der Mann]

Let's rename "Internet Explorer" to "Apache Browser". After all, it's becoming "A patchy" browser! :D

Re:Yawn

[Bromskloss]

Still saving for The Switch...

Come on, hop on the train and go for free software. No savings needed!