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You will be unable to remove IE8 Beta or IE7 after installing Windows XP SP3 because Microsoft wants to make sure that you do not encounter a problem commonly known as " DLL Hell ". IE8 Beta 1 users You will NOT be offered Windows XP SP3 unless...
Another cry for help received via email... " You are my last best hope... I am just a regular guy from NY (not the city) with a problem. My homepage in IE7 is locked on a page I dont want. I try to change it in Internet options and it even says the...
Details here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-apr.mspx The Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is also available - details here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-024.mspx Note that this month's...
A script may not run as expected in IE when you open an HTML page and the HTML page contains an element that has injected HTML code This issue occurs because Internet Explorer sets the security of an element as "about:blank" if the following...
12 patches, including a critical patch for Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-feb.mspx
HOTFIX: The exception handler may not catch an exception in Internet Explorer 7 or in Internet Explorer 6 when you view a Web page that throws an exception from a function that is called through the expando property You develop a Web page that throws...
Just catching up on the paperwork here... IE6 and IE7: Proxy server settings are not set correctly in IE6 afer you download a proxy script that uses chunk encoding Install IE update MS07-069 then enable the fix by editing the registry http://support.microsoft...
The EOLAS lawsuit and its side effects continue their death throes. As part of the process, a preview of the update that will remove the changes forced by the EOLAS lawsuit is available for download here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945007/en-us Note...
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the way Windows resolves hostnames that do not include a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN). The technology that the vulnerability affects is Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD). Microsoft...
Pete L reports that new builds of the IE6 and IE7 VPC images may be released as early as Monday or Tuesday.
This issue occurs if the following conditions are true: • The hyperlink is a uniform resource identifier (URI) that links to a file. • The file name contains UTF-8-encoded characters. In the URI, the UTF-8-encoded characters are interpreted as a byte...
Well well well, isn't this interesting. Microsoft have licensed the technologies that are covered by the infamous Eolas patent , and will be removing the “click to activate” requirement in Internet Explorer. Regular readers of this blog will remember...
I'm sitting in Sydney Airport with 3 hours to kill before my next flight so finally have time to catch up on some work. I tell ya, I'm looking forward to getting home tonight, even though I will have to go straight back to work tomorrow morning...
Symptom 1 The POST method or the GET method may encode certain characters as Unicode numeric character references. For example, these methods may encode あ as %26% 2312354%3B. This problem may occur in Web pages that contain Japanese characters...
The IE team have blogged about the release of a new version of the SiteLock Template for ActiveX Controls . I can't stress strongly enough how important it is that developers place security first when developing controls. Over the years there have...
This link, when clicked on in Outlook, generated an error message in IE7 (The original URL is now changed, so don't try it): http://www.castlecops.com/a6827-eChecks_and_Credit_Charges_–_I_Didn't_Authorize_That.html The error was: Internet Explorer...
Originally mentioned here , we have been unable to identify what is generating the UAS "IEMB3". If anybody knows, can you please reply to this entry? To repeat the original question: A User agent String (UAS) is made up of various segments that...
By default, Internet Explorer can store a maximum of 20 cookies for each domain. If a server in the domain sends more than 20 cookies to a client computer, the browser on the client computer automatically discards some old cookies. Each cookie consists...
Here is today's email question: "Dear Sandi, I would really appreciate your help. I've been trying for ages to find out what is wrong with my IE7 but there doesn't seem to be anything useful on the internet that I can find... Whenever...
You can now download a free image of XPSP2 with IE6 or XPSP2 with IE7 installed at the link below - the images will expire on 7 December 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang...
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