My thoughts on…the IE7 bug

February 4th 2006 -

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.

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5 Responses on “My thoughts on…the IE7 bug”

epiac1216 Says:
February 4th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
My thoughts regarding IE and FF is that the latter is technologically better. If you analyze IE’s features, they are copies of FF and Opera features.

Even the RSS button is a copy of FF. Now IE has a problem to solve and its reputation as a poor security product is again confirmed.

Play it safe and use Firefox!

Regards,

Omar.-
Jon Says:
February 5th, 2006 at 8:26 am
This is one IE user that tried FireFox and wasn’t happy with it and went right back to IE. IE7 is in Beta and by the time it is released the issues will be resolved.
Renée Says:
February 5th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Ah yes, me love me Firefox.
Abeni Says:
February 6th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Leon,you sound like you dancing inthe streets:)
Darnell Clayton Says:
February 6th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Hey Leon,

Thanks for stopping by!

I am glad IE came out with their browser. Firefox will only make them better, as competition seems to be the only driving force that motivates microsoft to innovation.

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