Mike's Ramblings...

In general, yes. This is an exceptional case, however, in that's its produced by a very widely respected guy, has been independently verfified by hundreds of testers, and is being outrightly championed by internet security companies who normally don't do that sort of thing (in particular, f-secure). And that the vulnerablity in question is a socking huge hole that's being very eagerly exploited, *and* the official patch is being stupidly delayed.