But I doubt this will mean anything to most readers of this E-Letter. This theft is a danger to corporations who do upgrades wholesale, but will probably never be even a distant blip on your radar screen. If you care, there's a small download that fixes the vulnerability, but I doubt it is necessary for most individual users. Microsoft has released a public beta of Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft's downloads are horribly slow these days.
Most reviewers are pretty happy with the changes, but the beta definitely has bugs.
Unless you like frustration, you are probably better off sticking with what you have. If you have a telephone connection to the Internet, I wouldn't bother with any long updates to your existing version, however, as you will probably want version 6 when it is stable. Microsoft has announced a serious security hole in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 5.5. There is a patch. Make sure you install this one.