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Microsoft lauds IE as 'the most secure browser'

Feb 12, 2004 12:49AM PST

((If they said it, I guess it must be so))

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39146084,00.htm
Microsoft lauds IE as 'the most secure browser'


Munir Kotadia
ZDNet UK
February 10, 2004, 16:25 GMT



Internet Explorer is now just about the most secure browser available, says Microsoft - because so many security holes have been filled


Last week's Internet Explorer patch has made the browser at least as secure, if not more secure, than any other browser, according to Microsoft UK's chief security officer.

Microsoft released a security patch for Internet Explorer last Monday that fixed three critical vulnerabilities; unfortunately the patch altered the way in which the browser handles certain URLs and forced many companies to reprogram their systems in order to accommodate the change. However, Microsoft has said the update means that Internet Explorer is now safer than any of the other browsers on the market, which users may find ironic due to the sheer number of vulnerabilities discovered in the browser over the past year.

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(NT) ROFL!
Feb 12, 2004 12:58AM PST

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(NT) ROFL!MAO - Nice try ;)
Feb 12, 2004 1:04AM PST

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(NT) Marianna! Marianna! Is that you????? :D
Feb 12, 2004 1:09AM PST
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(NT) Nope - my evil twin :)
Feb 12, 2004 1:19AM PST

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Re:Microsoft lauds IE as 'the most secure browser'
Feb 12, 2004 1:53AM PST

This ZDNet UK writer is the same one who wrote that MS was going to provide a free maintenance CD for older OS.

I may not be an elephant....

William