Recently, Microsoft created and issued a patch for Internet Explorer 6 that was supposed to fix 8 security vulnerabilities. That's the good news. Now for the bad: 
 
What they really did in patching for the 8 vulnerabilities was install a new vulnerability on people's machines. No...I'm not making this up: 
 
Read this article. 
 
I try to trust Microsoft. Honestly I do. I've recently been turning on auto-updates on my home PCs running Windows XP Pro to be assured that I'm running on the latest and greatest patches from Microsoft. Now I find out that one of Microsoft's auto updates could have installed a security vulnerability into my computer. This is just so frustrating for IT administrators and also for end users.  
 
People are creatures of habit. I don't blame them for a minute when they get angry after I tell them to stop using Internet Explorer and start using Firefox. The problem is, however, that I just can't trust Internet Explorer...period. 
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