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ALERT: Out of band security patch to be released tomorrow, 17 December at 10.00am Pacific time

Announcement here: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/12/16/advance-notification-for-december-2008-out-of-band-release.aspx The patch resolves the actively exploited vulnerability that has been in the press so much in recent days, and which is the subject of this Security Advisory: http://www...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Dec 16 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Internet Explorer 7, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8
Vista x64 and Internet Explorer

I received this email today: " I bought a 64 bit HP PC with Vista Home Premium and ie7 installed. When I was at a website to view something today it said I needed an Adobe plugin and directed me to Adobe. But Adobe said it did not have a 64 bit version and to use a 32 bit browser. After a bit of...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Fri, Oct 24 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Your questions answered
Internet Explorer Security levels compared... courtesy of Steve Riley

I've wanted to do this for ages ... never did get around to it ... ;o) Steve has put together a chart listing the default settings for each Internet Explorer security level (IE7 on Vista SP1) - you can find it here: http://blogs.technet.com/steriley/archive/2008/09/16/internet-explorer-security-levels...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sun, Sep 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7
Problems with SiteMeter crashing Internet Explorer

I'm sure many of you have heard by now that SiteMeter made some changes to their tracking code, which led to their site counter crashing Internet Explorer 6 and 7 ( and 5.5 ?). SiteMeter updated their code to fix the problem, but a side effect of the fix is, apparently, that the SiteMeter icon does...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sat, Aug 2 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
FIX: msfeedssync.exe crashes (RSS synchronization - IE7 and IE8)

I have over 400 RSS Feed subscriptions that I keep an eye on, and which need to be checked regularly, sometimes every 15 minutes. A couple of days ago, msfeedssync started crashing every time a synchronization was due. The errors were: Faulting application msfeedssync.exe , version 8.0.6001.17184, time...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Jul 30 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Technology, Internet Explorer 8
Important information about Windows XP SP3 for Internet Explorer users

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 and until you remove IE8 Beta 1. This is because...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, May 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8
Problem - unable to change Internet Explorer's home page

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 homepage I want but it always goes to this other...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sun, May 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Your questions answered
Problems with website certificates - IE7

Over the past few days I have seen a spike in the number of emails asking for help with website certificates. For example, two correspondents have written: " Thanks for providing the information about problems with certificates of IE7 in your website. I tried to follow your instructions to access...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sun, May 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Your questions answered
The April Security Updates have been released by Microsoft

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 cumulative update includes the IE Automatic...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Apr 8 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
New Internet Explorer KB articles

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 conditions are true: • A Web page inserts code into...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sun, Mar 16 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2008

12 patches, including a critical patch for Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-feb.mspx

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Fri, Feb 8 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
Unable to uninstall IE7 if Service Pack 2 is installed later on Windows Server 2003

In order to uninstall Internet Explorer 7 from this system, you can follow the steps below: 1. Uninstall Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 and restart the computer. 2. Uninstall Internet Explorer 7.0 and restart the computer. 3. Reinstall Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003. http://support.microsoft...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Thu, Jan 24 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7
Windows Internet Explorer 7 to be distributed via WSUS February 12, 2008; May require administrator action to manage the rollout

It is important to highlight the change highlighted in the Knowledgebase article below because of the brouhaha that occured when, if my memory serves me right, Windows Desktop Services (Windows Desktop Search) was released as an Update Rollup. Because of a combination of circumstances (including a non...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Jan 22 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer Knowledgebase articles

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 an exception from a function. The function is called...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Mon, Jan 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
New Internet Explorer KB articles

SAP Help shows only empty sections or blank pages Internet Explorer Release 7 is not completely compatible as release 6. SAP GUI uses Internet Explorer in the HTML control to display the help documents. To resolve this issue, you need to either apply one of the SAP GUI patches mentioned below (or the...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Jan 2 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7
Get confident, and be in the running to win a $10,000 Paypal shopping spree

Microsoft has launched a $250,000 Sweepstakes competition to show users how Internet Explorer can enhance online trust and confidence. The interactive site quickly demonstrates IE7's Phishing Filter and EV Certificates (the green address bar). Once the demonstration is finished, the visitor is given...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Wed, Dec 19 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7
New IE knowledgebase articles...

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.com/default.aspx/kb/843289 ---------- MS07...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sat, Dec 15 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
An Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation (IE ACA) Update Preview is available

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 that the download is only a *preview* and for...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Tue, Dec 11 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
HOTFIX: The text size that you specify is not applied to all IE7 windows that you open on a Windows Vista-based computer

This problem occurs if the following conditions are true: • Protected mode is enabled in Internet Explorer 7. • The window in which you specify the text size contains Web pages that use an encoding type other than UTF-8 encoding, such as Shift-JIS character encoding. Note this problem does not affect...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sat, Dec 8 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7
HOTFIX: After you use the Internet Explorer Customization Wizard to remove the default elements of some features in Internet Explorer 7, these elements still exist in Internet Explorer 7

On a computer that has Windows Internet Explorer 7 installed, you run the Internet Explorer Customization Wizard. You use this wizard to create an Internet Explorer 7 customized package. In the wizard, you remove the default elements of the following features: • Favorites • Feeds • Links Note The Internet...

Posted to Spyware Sucks by sandi on Sat, Dec 8 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer 7

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