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- http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040729S0004
July 29, 2004 - By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
Microsoft executives said that a comprehensive patch for Internet Explorer will be released next week, finally plugging the hole that hackers exploited in a sneak attack during June...We're targeting the release within the next week, said Dean Hachamovitch Wednesday in the security-oriented hosted monthly by Mike Nash, the head of Microsoft's security efforts. We're doing our final checks right now. The upcoming patch will be released out of cycle, said Hachamovitch, who oversees development for IE. That means it will appear before Microsoft's next regular-scheduled patch day. Microsoft rarely departs from the second-Tuesday-of-the-month schedule, an indication of how critical the company sees the fix. The next scheduled patch day is August 10. IE's patch, which will apply to IE 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0, was long in development and testing, said Hachamovitch, because the core vulnerability was complicated. He also noted that extensive testing -- both on other applications that might be affected by the patch and the various versions of IE and Windows -- meant the patch took longer to finalize...
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