Microsoft proved once again that we can't trust Internet Explorer (and maybe all products of Gates' company) - a security patch that makes Internet Explorer crash. The already popular MS06-042 security bulletin released by Microsoft the last week will be re-released on August, 22-nd because of the problems it caused on some users' browsers.
It seems that the people who are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 width Service Pack 1 on Windows XP plus Service Pack 1 or Windows 2000 will have problems if they apply this patch. When they visit websites that have both compression and the HTTP/1.1 protocol enabled MSIE will crash unexpectedly.
However Microsoft continues to urge the Windows users to apply this buggy security patch. The reason is that the security vulnerabilities that are fixed by the patch could harm your computer much more than the crashes of Internet Explorer.
If you are using MSIE on Windows XP plus SP2 or Windows Server 2003 you shouldn't worry about this patch - these systems are not affected.
The problem with this security patch of Microsoft is not that huge - we've seen much worse bugs, it's all about the low quality of Internet Explorer and the security services of Microsoft. The problem is more global than it looks like and I don't think that the upcoming IE 7 and Windows Vista can change the situation a lot.
