THE SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has been slammed for dragging its feet in providing a patch for its latest Internet Exploder flaw.

Vole wants to wait until April 11 to release a patch for the bug which is already being used by hackers on hundreds of Web sites. If a user goes to one of these sites, they will have the bonnet of their computers opened, and dodgy software jacked-in in a twinkling of an eye, says security outfit eEye.