Better Safe Than Sorry

The Thirty Day Rule

An old Javascriprt vulnerability in all Firefox versions prior to 1.0.5 has taken on a new life since the code to take advantage of it has been published on the web. Those of you who are still happily using older versions should upgrade. Best Practices: Always upgrade to the latest version of software at about the thirty daymark after its release because . . . a) This gives any bugs in the release time to be found by all those early adopters allowing the developers time to patch the bug. b) Not enough time has passed that evil virus writers have released exploits. c) Authors of plugins and other add-ons (such as Firefox extensions) will have had time to patch their products.