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IE 7 on Vista: Mostly secure
Published April 13th, 2007 in Browser Security, Internet Explorer 7
When is your shiny new Windows Vista protected against evil Web threats? Not as often as we were all led to believe in those 
Microsoft Windows Vista ads. I ran across this post from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer blog site shortly after the software giant patched the animated cursor flaw in Windows Vista with the release of MS07-017. Microsoft has said that users running IE 7 under Windows Vista are better protected from the malicious effects of Web exploits such as the animated cursor exploit than users running IE 7 under Windows XP because of the introduction of a new "sandbox" element (called Protected Mode) within the new operating system.
IE 7 on Vista: Mostly secure | News.blog | CNET News.com
