isitreal - 11:33 pm on Jul 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

just download the tiny 1kB fix and you're set, takes a second. This wasn't a serious thing in a sense, it wasn't actually implemented like last week's IE exploits, it was just proven to be a problem, and resolved almost instantly.

The autoupdate feature is definitely a must-have for standard users, since most people won't ever keep up with this stuff by themselves. No browser is exploit proof, both Opera and Firefox have had holes discovered, but they were almost immediately resolved. It's much easier to fix most of these holes I believe since the browser is a true stand alone application, unlike IE.