{"id":20353,"date":"2011-02-22T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=20353"},"modified":"2011-02-22T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T16:25:06","slug":"ask-leo-you-have-to-keep-ie-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/ask-leo-you-have-to-keep-ie-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Leo: You Have to Keep IE Up to Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"askleo\"<\/p>\n

By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n

I keep seeing where hijacking, vulnerabilities, infections, etc., of various<\/p>\n

applications are prevalent. The latest one is another IE vulnerability; among<\/p>\n

other things. I believe there is a manual work-around for IE but no patch has<\/p>\n

been issued. I have IE8 installed. I use primarily Firefox (v3.6.13). My<\/p>\n

question is this … am I still vulnerable to attach(s) although I do not use<\/p>\n

IE8; or whichever application may be installed on my computer? Thanks and good<\/p>\n

work!<\/i><\/p>\n

In general if you don’t have or use a particular piece of software then you
\ncan safely ignore the updates and or vulnerability notifications that you might
\nrun across.<\/p>\n

In general.<\/p>\n

Internet Explorer, on the other hand, is a special case. Use it or not, you
\nmust keep it up to date.<\/p>\n

Internet Explorer Whether You Want It Or Not<\/b> <\/p>\n

The most obvious scenarios are these:<\/p>\n

  • \n

    Some websites work only with Internet Explorer. As IE’s market share
    \ndeclines this is less common, but since businesses can count on IE being on
    \nevery Windows machine they’ll sometimes simply take the easy way out and worry
    \nonly about IE when designing their web site. Want to visit their site? You’ll
    \nhave to fire up IE.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  • \n

    Some software will automatically fire up Internet Explorer if you use online
    \nhelp or “Visit our website” types of features. Frequently they’ll use IE even
    \nwhen it isn’t your default browser.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    There’s little to be done in cases like this, other than to be slightly
    \nannoyed.<\/p>\n

    Internet Explorer will come up, whether you want it or not.<\/p>\n

    But at least it’s obvious.<\/p>\n

    Internet Explorer is More Than Internet Explorer<\/b> <\/p>\n

    The problem is actually more complex, albeit it conceptually fairly simple:
    \nInternet Explorer is found in more places than just Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n

    IE is comprised of several components – an HTML rendering engine, internet
    \naccess components, bookmarking functionality and so on. Perhaps the most
    \nimportant, though, is that HTML rendering engine.<\/p>\n

    I’ll use that as my example.<\/p>\n

    When you visit a web page the contents of the web page are described in
    \nHyperText Markup Language, or HTML. Everything from references to images to the
    \nhighlighting of words is specified in HTML. The rendering engine’s job is to
    \nread that HTML, interpret it and make things appear as instructed.<\/p>\n

    For example, when the rendering engine sees “<strong>this should be
    \nbold<\/strong>” as HTML input, it produces “this should be
    \nbold<\/strong>” as its output displayed in the browser.<\/p>\n

    Article continued here<\/a><\/p>\n

    FaceBook URL: Leo’s Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

    Twitter URL: http:\/\/twitter.com\/askleo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \"askleo\"<\/p>\n

    By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n

    In general if you don’t have or use a particular piece of software then you
    \ncan safely ignore the updates and or vulnerability notifications that you might
    \nrun across.<\/p>\n

    In general.<\/p>\n

    Internet Explorer, on the other hand, is a special case. Use it or not, you
    \nmust keep it up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[46,281,282,283,120,4875,284,51,285,53,286,287],"class_list":["post-20353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leo-notenboom","tag-ask-leo","tag-default-browser","tag-engine","tag-explorer","tag-internet-explorer","tag-leo-notenboom","tag-s-market","tag-site","tag-want","tag-web","tag-websites-work","tag-windows-machine"],"yoast_head":"\nAsk Leo: You Have to Keep IE Up to Date<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Leo Notenboom In general if you don't have or use a particular piece of software then you can safely ignore the updates and or vulnerability notifications that you might run across. 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