WIRED: It’s been more than a month since the first news of Download.Ject, and you still haven’t issued a real fix for Internet Explorer. How long is it going to take?
TOULOUSE: The first step was to block this specific attack. The malicious software was being delivered from a server in Russia. We worked with law enforcement to get that shut down. And our product teams released an update that blocked the downloads that Ject had hacked. It was not specifically a security update for Internet Explorer. We’re still working on that.
WIRED: Meanwhile, Firefox and Opera look awfully appealing.
TOULOUSE: Security is really an industry-wide problem. Just this morning I had to install an update to Firefox to block a flaw that would’ve allowed an attacker to run a program on my system. We’re working around the clock to make Internet Explorer safer, and we’re making changes with our Windows XP Service Pack 2 to make browsing a lot more secure.
Quoted from: Wired Magazine: View – Microsoft’s War on Bugs
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