We’ve had a few customers asking about IE 8 and whether they should upgrade or not. While we think IE 8 will be better than it’s predecessors, there appears to be enough issues with it that it would be smart to hold off for a while — at least a month or so until these issues are resolved.
A few of these reported issues are:
- A zero day security exploit.
- Issues with Spybot-S&D’s immunization tool and IE-SPYAD , which adds unfavorable sites to your IE’s restricted zone.
- Some users have reported that after installing IE 8 and applying Windows’ hotfixes, IE 8 has inexplicably reverted back to IE 7 . Very strange…
Hackers no doubt will also be hammering this browser hard, looking for additional exploits since it’s brand new — another reason to hold off until Microsoft has time to patch these issues.
Know of more issues? Let us know!
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