http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/rupertgoodwins/0,39020691,39170849,00.htm
It's rare that Microsoft code gets tested against all comers, and comes
out the resounding victor. It's even rarer when the testing involves
browser security. But that's just what's happened. A programmer called
Michal Zalewski wrote a utility to generate chunks of badly formed
HTML--stuff that breaks all the rules--and throw it at a selection of
browsers. IE swallowed it all and kept on running. Opera, Firefox,
Mozilla and Lynx regularly crashed. His report on Bugtraq makes sobering
reading: single-handedly, he's found a whole host of potential exploits
in a wide selection of browsers. But none in IE--how has Microsoft got
something so right while everyone else is in trouble...?

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