The revelation follows last week's warning that a serious vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer occurred in the software supporting a decade-old protocol that has rarely been used since the World Wide Web became popular. The company is rushing to eliminate old code as a result of criticism that Microsoft's security initiative has been slow to show results
Aw man. Does this mean I cant gopher to well.com using IE anymore? Dammit. Better stick to lynx then.

I think Microsoft deserves some credit though, for the effort if nothing else.