Microsoft patches IE, but Firefox is still safer

Microsoft recently announced that a special, out-of-cycle patch would
be released on Dec. 17 for Internet Explorer's latest security
vulnerability, the so-called XML exploit.

If you'd like to avoid similar weaknesses that are certain to be
discovered in IE in the future, the simple solution is to use a
different browser, such as Firefox, with a few easy customizations
that allow you to switch to Microsoft's browser only for sites that
absolutely require IE.

If you haven't yet patched IE to protect against the XML exploit,
visit Microsoft's December 2008 security advisory. This Web page,
which began as an announcement of the Redmond company's planned patch,
changes automatically to information about installing the patch as
soon as the fix is released.

WS contributing editor Susan Bradley reported on the dangerous
zero-day exploit in her Dec. 11 Patch Watch column (paid content). The
security hole affects many different builds of IE 5, 6, and 7 as well
as the beta version of IE 8. Every recent version of Microsoft's
operating system is potentially affected: Windows 2000, XP, Vista,
Server 2003, and Server 2008.

http://windowssecrets.com/2008/12/17/02-Microsoft-patches-IE-but-Firefox-is-still-safer

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