blogs.zdnet.com — Back in the day when Internet Explorer was more of an experiment than a viable browser, the iexplore.exe application was heavily tied into Windows, the explorer.exe application. If one faltered, more likely to be the former, the other would almost automatically screw up too. Read about how it can affect your browsing experience.
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wadick4Dec 17, 2008
Dugg for the IE icon being on fire.
rowjimmyDec 18, 2008
i use curl and pipe the output into vi;)
natenovsDec 18, 2008
it was patched yesterday. 8 day turn around time from discovery to patch - pushed out to hundred of millions of users world wide. there is nothing wrong with that.
darkshroudDec 18, 2008
You can turn ActiveX off you know. But then Flash wouldn't work. IE7 sets ActiveX to prompt be default.
svivianDec 18, 2008
Opera is the safest. According to secunia it has 0 unpatched vulnerabilities (out of 21 total).
svivianDec 18, 2008
Opera patches vulnerabilities incredibly quickly. According to Secunia there are 0 unpatched ones.
mrbitchDec 19, 2008
@ DarkShroud RE: " As for active X controls. They were set by default to "prompt to run" with IE7. So that's not really an issue anymore. "Please read how this current exploit works. It will execute EVEN WHEN " prompt to run " is Active / On. This completely circumvents IE7 activeX defaults and completely circumvents Vista's UAC.
shinywindDec 19, 2008
Lynx for the winners!