Categories: Science and Tech

The release of Internet Explorer 7 gave the IE fans much reason to rejoice. It would finally make those Firefox users shut up. But soon after its release, a bug was found. It was found by Tom Ferris, well known for finding holes in various browsers. It took him only 15 minutes to find the bug. Here are his findings. He said “a denial of service vulnerability exists within Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 which allows for an attacker to cause the browser to crash, and or to execute arbitrary code on the targeted host.” And to add insult to injury, guess what he recommended. “Use Firefox, which has better security features.” And soon after the discovery of the bug, Firefox released its latest version, 1.5.0.1, which makes it more stable and secure. Tough luck IE. Just when you were beginning to catch up to Firefox, it blazed ahead and left you in its fiery trail. Can’t be too hard on Microsoft though. It is the beta version after all.