Obviously Mr. Ballmer didn't see my post offering to help rewrite Internet Explorer, for free mind you. *FREE* Hello? There is a new vulnerability out for Internet Explorer, the reigning champion of Windows vulnerabilities, and this one is very, very ugly.

When I finish this blog, I am going to go download FireFox, and I am very bitter that I am being forced to download a third party application that replicates behavior that I paid for when I bought the OS because Microsoft blatanlty refuses to fix IE. This hodge-podge patch and go solution is obviously not working. Hello? Is anyone listening? And it isn't like this is an unpatched machine. I am running Windows 2003 server with the latest release candidate for Service Pack 1 installed, so it has all the added *security* features that Windows XP has in its latest Service Pack.

To test your machine for vulnerability, go here and click on the link on the page. What is so ugly about this vulnerability that made me finally decide to stop using Internet Explorer? When you test your browser you will notice that even though the page is hosted by Secunia, and is Secunia servers, the Address Bar say “https://paypal.com”. *HTTPS* mind you. Not only that, but there is the nice little lock at the bottom of the screen that tells me my transmissions are secure, and it verifies that you are on paypal.com if you click it.

I am not taking any chances this time, I am going to email steveb with this link so he has a better chance of seeing it this time...

Oh, and if you are looking, there isn't a fix yet...