You know those security flaws with Internet Explorer? Bill Gates says it's your fault...

[lovingboth]

From an interview in USA Today (tries to open a pop-up)

Q: Speaking of security, Internet Explorer has had well-publicized holes …

Gates: Understand those are cases where you are downloading third-party software.

Well, yes. IE's holes could well be described as "where you are downloading third-party software".

The problem is that it's when IE is letting nasty people send you software that you don't actually want to have...

Gates: More has been invested in making IE secure than any [sic] browser on the planet by a long shot. Nothing is going to change. That's the one over 90% of people are going to keep using.

Be part of the 'less than 10%'.

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[djm4]

Understand those are cases where you are downloading third-party software.

*snort!*

Yeah. Like JPEGs.

[lovingboth]

To be fair - difficult though that is in this case! - I understand that one isn't a IE hole as such, but in the libraries installed by Windows XP / MS Office / several other products.

So my home PC has Windows 2000 and IE6, but doesn't have MS Office and, according to Windows Update anyway, doesn't need the JPEG rendering patches.

[djm4]

The point is that it's not a third-party product, either. And it's only 'not an IE hole' in the sense that it's in a library used by IE to render the JPEG. It's not as though IE has its own altenative safe JPEG-rendering code that XP came along and subverted.