Microsoft mulls early IE patch release
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Meanwhile, a second unofficial fix is out as attacks on Internet Explorer users are reportedly increasing.
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Microsoft plans to release the first beta of the next version of Internet Explorer in the first half of 2008 and said Wednesday that IE 8 has passed a key Web standards test that ensures the browser won&#39;t &quot;break&quot; the Web.IE8 has passed the &quot;Acid2 Browser Test&quot; from the Web Standards Project, which shows whether a browser renders a Web site in a certain way. If the browser renders the site correctly, it means the browser supports certain accepted Web standards.Microsoft posted a video about the browser passing the test on its Channel 9 Web site.Microsoft developed IE before some Web standards, such as CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and RSS,&#160;were developed, and so older versions don&#39;t support some current standards. Developers would write applications to work with IE rather than to support Web standards because the browser was the de facto standard for surfing the Internet for so many years. Microsoft also was lax in updating IE to meet the demands of Web standards because there was little competition in the browser market for years.With the release and subsequent popularity of open-source browser Mozilla Firefox three years ago, a browser&#39;s need to stay current with Web standards once again moved to the forefront. When Microsoft developed IE7, released in October 2006, the company had good intentions and decided to improve support of Web standards with the new release.However, Web sites that were created for older versions of IE didn&#39;t work properly on IE7. Microsoft hopes to remedy this problem so the situation is not repeated with IE8, according to an IE Blog posting attributed to Dean Hachamovitch, a Microsoft general manager on the IE team.&quot;With respect to standards and interoperability, our goal in developing Internet Explorer 8 is to support the right set of standards with excellent implementations and do so without breaking the existing Web,&quot; according to the blog posting.Hachamovitch said Microsoft is taking a cue in lessons learned from making improvements to CSS in IE7 that &quot;made IE more compliant with some standards and less compatible with some sites on the Web as they were coded.&quot; The key design goal for IE8, he said, is compatibility with existing Web sites and Web standards supported in other browsers to provide a premium user experience.&quot;As a developer, I&#39;d prefer to not have to write the same site multiple times for different browsers,&quot; according to Hachamovitch&#39;s post. &quot;Standards are a (critical!) means to this end, and we focus on the standards that will help actual, real-world interoperability the most. As a consumer and a developer, I expect stuff to just work, and I also expect backwards compatibility. When I get a new version of my current browser, I expect all the sites that worked before will still work.&quot;Microsoft said the final release of IE8 depends upon feedback received from the beta process.
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The effectiveness of a patch issued last September for a Microsoft Word vulnerability, where .DOC files opened in Word 2003 and earlier versions via Internet Explorer or Outlook could enable remote code execution, is being called into question today.
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MICROSOFT has issued an out-of-schedule critical patch for its Internet Explorer web browser, plugging a security hole that could allow a hacker to take control of a PC.
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Microsoft updates IE 7 due to performance issues with its phishing filter.
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Wide adoption of the latest Explorer patch may be hindered because it requires more effort than the typical Windows update. &quot;This one&#39;s going to take a little more effort,&quot; said Ken Dunham of iDefense.
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Updated: A &quot;cumulative security update&quot; plugs eight holes in the Internet Explorer browser, while other patches address &quot;critical&quot; vulnerabilities in the Windows shell, in SMTP and elsewhere.
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By recent standards, September's Patch Tuesday will be mild, with only five patches and one being rated "critical." In the past several months, Microsoft has dealt with more critical errors in its products with four in June, three in July, and six in August.
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Microsoft Releases 10 Security Patches for Windows, Excel, and IE  If you use Microsoft Windows, Excel, or their Internet Explorer browser you better watch out, because there are some large security holes that need patching. Microsoft on Tuesday published 10 software security advisories, warning Windows users and corporate administrators of 22 ...
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In sharp contrast to last month&#39;s barrage of critical patches, Microsoft has offered up just one &quot;important&quot; fix for users to implement in its scheduled round of security updates for November.
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Users and admins who have been avoiding Microsoft's upgrade from version 6 to version 7 of Internet Explorer are going to have to try a little harder: The long-expected automatic upgrade is due to push out on Feb. 12.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has released a patch for Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) that will boost the brand-new browser's performance on some Web sites. Some users had reported that the new phishing filter had been slowing down the PC's performance as IE evaluated the security of Web pages that contained a lot of frames. "When you use Windows Internet Explorer 7 to visit a Web page, the computer may respond very slowly as the phishing filter evaluates Web page contents," Microsoft said in a note published Tuesday. MicrosoftÂ introduced the filterÂ in IE7,Â released in mid-October, as a way of warning Web surfers when they might be visiting untrustworthy Web sites. The new patches are for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 versions of IE7, but not for users running the browser on Windows Vista.
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By JESSICA MINTZ SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. released four critical patches Tuesday to plug security holes in several versions of its Windows operating system, Internet Explorer Web browser and other programs.
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Microsoft released a &quot;cumulative security update&quot; for Internet Explorer (MS04-38) that plugs eight holes in the popular browser, as well as six other unique patches for vulnerabilities that the company rated as critical.
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Microsoft has a technical work-around for users who found IE crashing after recent security update.
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Microsoft has offered a technical workaround for Internet Explorer users who have found their browsers crashing after installing a recent set of security patches.Last Tuesday,&#160;Microsoft issued a critical security update for its browser software, fixing bugs in the browser. But soon after, users began reporting that IE would crash while visiting certain Web sites. These users would be forced to restart the browser after receiving an &quot;Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and must close&quot; message.Microsoft now says that the problem is not widespread and affects certain custom installations of Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP, Service Pack 2.Customers who experience this problem can fix it by making changes to the Windows registry, described in this Knowledge Base article.Microsoft did not say what kind of customization would cause the bug, and company representatives were not immediately available for comment.Some newsgroup users are speculating, however, that the issue may be related to antivirus software. Symantec and McAfee users who have been experiencing the problem have been able to resolve the issue by uninstalling the security update and then uninstalling their antivirus software, installing the update and then reinstalling their AV products, said Frank Saunders, a Windows user who has been following discussion of the issue.The Internet Explorer patch associated with this problem -- MS07-069 -- is considered to be the most important of last week&#39;s updates because it fixes four critical vulnerabilities in the browser.
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A day after Microsoft announced it would give customers early warning of impending patches, the Redmond, Wash.-based developer fleshed out its heads-up with a notice that next Tuesday&#39;s patches