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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...
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...
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...
I received the following email from a reader: "I had an interesting email a few days ago from an IE7 user. He visited www.tigardchurch.org to find most of the text on the Home Page surrounded by “b’s”. I don’t own the site however; my wife is involved...
As reported on bugtraq@securityfocus.com by "nsp", Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Opera 9.10 apparently fail to detect a phishing site if it is embeded in an IFRAME / OBJECT label: Demonstration pages can be seen here (warning, the URLs will prompt to install a...
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MS are going to push out an IE specific kill-bit for MSXML4 in October. More information here: http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2007/03/12/msxml4-is-going-to-be-kill-bit-ed.aspx Key changes: http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2007/03/12/upgrading...
A hotfix has been released by Microsoft to the QFE branch (Quick Fix Engineering) that fixes the infamous "shrink to fit" issue that some customers are experiencing after they install IE7. Basically, when affected users try to print an email it is printed...
Ok, so a couple of days ago Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 hit Automatic Update, catching all of us by surprise. That's all well and good, and believe me the team has heard feedback from many areas about the lack of information about the upcoming...
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This is far too easy; the Firefox Phishing Filter can be disasbled simply by adding an extra slash after the domain suffix. Original advisory: http://kaneda.bohater.net/security/20070111-firefox_2.0.0.1_bypass_phishing_protection.php The discovery is...
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Let this be a lesson to those companies out there that are going to purchase an Extended Validation (EV) certificate - please make sure that your site is coded so that the EV will display. Extended validation certificates are not cheap, and you do not...
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I'm sure I've written about this before - yep, I've got info up on www.ie-vista.com on the Knowledge Base page: http://www.ie-vista.com/known_issues.html#tpa The official SBS Blog have posted an entry about a problem with Exchange System Manager and IE7...
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Microsoft have released a series of updates for Windows Vista, both x86 and x64 versions, including (finally) a phishing filter update for IE7 that speeds up Web surfing - the XP version of the phishing filter update was released a while back. Here's...
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I've been having a look at IE7 add-ins to use on my x64 Vista based system over the past few days. So far I've had a look at 3, all of which are available at http://www.enhanceie.com/ , being Find As You Type , Feeds Plus and Feed Folder . Feeds Plus...
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