http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft patches IE security hole, human rights activities fully resume http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/or maybe it's just the Americans generating instability to split China into pieces like Europe...]]>Jan 23rd 2010 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/
Those of us that need to use it at work. There are still many software programs that only run on IE.]]>Jan 21st 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200812-201001]]>Jan 21st 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/
66% of all internet use.

And unlike Firefox, IE actually supports HTML4 standards such as the COL tag.

I know Engadget is biased against it despite the 66% market share. They don't even allow IE users to rank comments.
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"If you're still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (versions 5.01 to 8) for some inexplicable reason"

whats wrong with IE8, its the one of, if not the safest browser. This security hole aside, Internet Explorer was the first browser to integrate features that protect you against phishing and malware, and the first to embed domain highlighting, Cross-Site scripting protection, InPrivate filtering—the list goes on and on.

IE8 is also one of the fastest browsers. A lot of Firefox and Chrome advocates like to cling to micro-benchmarking page load claims to measure browser speed. But in most cases, these differences can only be viewed by slow-motion video captures, and they just don't represent real world examples. ]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/
EI6 was good, IE7 was fine, EI8 is a stinking pile. Right from the get go it starts insisting I choose accelerators and live which wots, after which it tries to set the default search engine to anything besides Google. Anyway, nothing can get around the fact that it's plain butt-ugly.

Chrome FTW. Super fast and pretty, and soon to have bookmark sync and all kinds of goodies.]]>Jan 22nd 2010 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 22nd 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/I have to in order to pay some bills online. Some websites will only allow IE.]]>Jan 22nd 2010 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/
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And that includes you Adobe Flash.]]>Jan 21st 2010 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/https://www.bsi.bund.de/cln_174/ContentBSI/presse/Pressemitteilungen/Sicherheitspatch_IE_210110.html

They announce there that they previously had an advise on IE being vulnerable and that now IE was patched for 8 issues and that you should apply that patch ASAP and how to do that.
]]>Jan 21st 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/and various ways to avoid risk
Since they all use IE technology.
]]>Jan 21st 2010 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB10-018.html

"US-CERT is the operational arm of the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is a public-private partnership. "
]]>Jan 21st 2010 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/The issue with IE is that it relies on stuff in the OS itself, stuff that's also written decades ago often when gates didn't even believe anything would come from that internet thing, and it leans on stuff flawed in design from the very core.
So that argument of marketshare causing it is not true, in fact only after gates went into the background MS started to actually seriously do something about security at all in windows before that they weren't interested in it really, they didn't consider it an issue for the OS itself, and certainly not for the consumer versions of windows, they took an attitude the user or system manager should take care of that him/herself.
And you can easily verify it by checking statements made by MS themselves over the years, and by changes they made to the OS to try to patch in some security, and by reading the details of the windows update patches and the details of many of the flaws found in IE.]]>Jan 21st 2010 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/I must agree.]]>Jan 21st 2010 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/And the fix is so simple.

@Engadget
Get your Web Developer off his Mac and get to it!
]]>Jan 21st 2010 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/exactly! because who uses Safari? ]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://cn.engadget.com/
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All those characters to learn
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Not I.]]>Jan 21st 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/
Hate is a strong word. It's ok, just. I wouldn't go as far as to say I like it though. The design is too messy. Loads of unfocused "2.0" features.

Also, if I click on reply and I'm not logged in, would it be possible to do something vaguely useful (login box maybe?), rather than absolutely nothing?

(Sorry, moan moan moan moan moan :-)]]>Jan 21st 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/
At least the old one actually worked.
]]>Jan 21st 2010 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Jan 21st 2010 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/microsoft-patches-ie-security-hole-human-rights-activities-full/Thats hard to believe.]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:34PM