Information Security News: Re: IE5 security bugs prevent 5.01 release

[mea culpa <jericho () DIMENSIONAL COM>]

Reply From: Anthony Law <reveal () home com>

You know what's REALLY scary?  Microsoft, as well as BigFix, recommend
turning off Active Scripting until a fix is in place.  In order to use the
"Windows Update" feature of IE5.0 you have to have Active Scripting turned
ON or it WILL NOT WORK!  Kind of a catch-22 situation.

Anthony Law
reveal () home com


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Buggy IE 5 causing fits for Microsoft

It may be the dominant Web browser and the overwhelming technological
champion, but Internet Explorer 5.0 is causing fits for Microsoft
Corporation. Bug after bug has plagued the Web browser since its release
in March, and now, just six months later, its seems a week doesn't go by
without some new problem cropping up. This week, IE 5.0 was hit by not
one, but two new bugs, one of them fairly surface. And a reeling Microsoft
can't seem to ship IE 5.01--which will include a massive collection of bug
fixes--soon enough.