Security concerns prompt the IE7 U-turn

Spike · Feb 16, 2005

According to The Register, security concerns are responsible for the announced release of IE7 for Windows XP later this year.

In a keynote address at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Gates singled out spyware and social engineering such as phishing and spyware attacks as the "fastest growing challenge".

"There's no exploit involved," he said. "Social engineering attacks take the privilege of a user and fool them into running code they don't want to run."

Of course, we all know there are no security holes in IE. It should be obvious to everyone that spyware gets onto computers because end-users are naive, right?

err, I don't think so. Undoubtedly some end users are at fault, but I don't think they can take all of the blame!

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Security concerns prompt the IE7 U-turn

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