IE7: 3 million downloads in four days

in the 4 days since its release, a few three million internet customers have downloaded the state-of-the-art model of internet Explorer. however protection organization Secunia has warned of any other flaw inside the software.

As Microsoft announced that more than three million humans have downloaded internet Explorer 7 , Danish protection company Secunia said it had discovered a 2nd flaw within the browser.

the primary security flaw changed into found only hours after the release of IE7, but Microsoft blamed Outlook explicit for the trouble. See Microsoft's comments on the matter on its security response middle weblog .

but, now Secunia has said that IE7 incorporates any other malicious program, one that makes it feasible for hackers to region a fake net cope with in a pop-up window. customers can also then be tricked into downloading material from a internet site they suppose is relaxed, while it in reality links via to a spoof internet site.

Microsoft admitted that there can be a trouble, however no technical statistics on the protection flaw has been issued from the employer. Secunia describes how the IE7 worm looks on its website.

Microsoft is hoping that the hobby in internet Explorer 7 will reach file levels, and up to now it seems like they have succeeded. while the next windows update is made available next month, the quantity of users is expected to upward thrust dramatically because the internet browser is to be protected within the down load. it's going to then be circulated to all users of home windows XP SP2 and home windows Server 2003.

"internet Explorer 7 has yet to be made available in various languages, after which of course there is constantly home windows Vista," Tony Choir at Microsoft's IE7 institution stated.

in the US, Microsoft is pushing IE7 via radio commercial and cellular poster campaigns in larger towns. The enterprise is absolutely looking to take returned market shares from rival Firefox, which previously accounted for 12 according to cent of the browser marketplace.