Our bright, security-minded friends at Microsoft are using a known-bad site to deliver Internet Explorer 7 to its customer base! Courtesy of http://www.GeerCom.com.
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Welcome!

Our bright and secure friends at Microsoft are using a known-bad site to deliver Internet Explorer 7. Don't believe me? Read through the many Google Groups posts linked above and you'll see.

What a debacle. Can you say WTF?

Here's how I found out.

I wanted to download IE7 (short for Internet Explorer 7) today, not because I plan to use it but to make sure my site still looks great in the new browser version, to which many people will be upgrading.

Well, my security software blocked the download site, a non-Microsoft site (?!), which also appears in my restricted sites zone and the hosts file that blocks known bad sites.

The link is http://switch.atdmt.com/action/IE_7_Windows_XP_SP2_B and atdmt.com is known for delivering spyware and adware. WTF is MSFT doing? This has to be the most incompetent thing I've seen them do all year!

Is it safe to temporarily disable my security settings to get IE7 and then reinstate them? I'm not taking the chance! Moreover, why is MSFT giving me all this extra work just to get the software?

Best,
David Geer - your on time technology writer!
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