Critical Update for Internet Explorer with ADODB.Stream (KB870669)
They're late. Not a year, but 8 months. In the long version, they call it: "Critical Update for Microsoft Data Access Components - Disable ADODB.Stream object from Internet Explorer (KB870669)".
Anyway, here (or on Windows Update) is a fix to an important problem with Internet Explorer and local storage access. More information is available at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870669 (this Knowledge Base article also describes the actions the fix performs for you automatically).