Yes, of course you are right.

I was sort of mocking MS idea of using IE but being vigilant. (As if that was remotely achievable.)

“invalid pointer reference in the data binding function.” I understand all the words individually but I got lost as soon as I tried to understand them when they are linked together.

Understanding them doesn’t help much – there’s nothing you can do. All it means is that MS has written yet another bug-filled bit of code suffering from the most common type of bug ever to exist. And everyone else has to pay for their sloppy work, again. Oh and it’s been there for many years.

The only way to be vigilant is to avoid ‘such sites’, or any sites at all perhaps, or more practically – don’t use IE. Or Outlook, or other applications which re-use parts of IE – at least to be safe. Hell don’t even use Windows – according to MS at their trial they reckoned that IE was an inseparable part of Windows, integrated at a deep level. And surely they’d know – or they’re great liars.