About that patch

Re: The IE patch.

According to Brian’s comment , the IE patch for version 5.X doesn’t actually fix one of the vulnerabilities. As well, Chris mentions that the patch may break Pane views in Outlook 2000 & 2002. Which just goes to prove my theory that anything MS or any other company releases should be given a few days or weeks, to let other people be the guinea pigs. 🙂

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