I decided to take the plunge and upgrade one of the PCs chez Stanley to use IE 7.0 the other day.
Like many people I had avoided using IE over the past couple of years in favour of Firefox, which appears to be more secure than IE even if that security is predicated on its smaller market share and therefore less reason for it to be targeted.
Of course I was not surprised to see the first alleged flaw for IE 7.0 hit the headlines 3 attoseconds after I had completed the install (An attosecond is one billionth of one billionth of a second by the way).
Identified by Secunia this flaw apparently allows bad people to do bad things. Clearly this upset Microsoft who counter attacked here saying that it was not a flaw in IE 7.0, in fact the problem lies in Outlook Express.
So that’s alright then – IE 7.0 is (so far) fine, but Outlook Express needs some attention. Now, how do I reinstall Firefox again…?
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