'Critical' megapatch sews up 10 holes in IE

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'Critical' megapatch sews up 10 holes in IE
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6060038.html

* not that many of us use IE ... but do apply the most recent Windows Updates.
Also a security patch for Outlook Express

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Microsoft's 'Eolas patch' to hobble IE this week. Advantage: Firefox
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2868

...Going out in today's superpatch Tuesday batch of patches is an update to Internet Explorer that will disable frictionless operation of ActiveX plug-ins inside of Internet Explorer. Now, instead of one click to get something like Adobe's Macromedia Flash player to do something, it may take two (or in the case of an ActiveX control that used to automatically load without any clicks, now a click will be required). ...

...The user experience is far from ideal but Microsoft has no choice as a result of the defeat it was handed in a patent infringement suit that was filed against the company by Eolas...

...Use Firefox.

As it turns out, as long as Firefox is an open source solution, Eolas will not pursue the developers of Firefox to the same corners of the Earth that it did with Microsoft. Said Eolas founder Michael Doyle in an interview with eWeek: ...