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smiller667
18th February 2002, 02:20
Before applying the security patch advertised on the news page, you might want to check out this Infoworld article: http://infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/02/15/020215hnmspatch.xml. Briefly, it says patched versions of IE are likely to crash when a web page uses a certain VBScript directive (execscript).
Not being an IE user I have no idea how relevant this is in real life.

Doom9
18th February 2002, 02:34
considering that vbscript is more of a security hazard than useful (most sites use javascript) I don't think it's such a big issue.. I applied the patch on 2 computers so far without any problems or browser crashes. You certainly don't have to worry if you come to my site or forum ;)