As you might have heard Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has suffered yet another exploit. This one came as a result of the company’s efforts to patch other security exploits. Today they released an emergency patch to fix the problem.

“As it promised yesterday, Microsoft Corp. today issued an emergency patch to plug a critical hole in Internet Explorer (IE) that attackers have been increasingly exploiting from hacked Web sites.

The patch, described in Microsoft’s security bulletin MS08-078, fixes a flaw in the data-binding function of all available versions of the popular browser, including IE5.01, IE6, IE7 and IE8 Beta 2.

Microsoft labeled the bug as “critical,” the most serious threat ranking in its four-step scoring system. Today’s update was the second out-of-cycle patch from Microsoft in the past two months.

Researchers unanimously praised Microsoft for putting out the patch as quickly as it did.”

As this wasn’t the first time IE has had a issue, and if history proves true it won’t be the last. Many computer experts suggest, as do I, that you use Firefox or some other alternate browser. Simply put, IE is just not a secure solution even after it’s been patched.