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Check which Sites Have Been Visited (Even if Private Browsing Mode is Used)

Some days ago I wrote a post about Hacking InPrivate Browsing, there you find useful information about how to find traces left by Internet Explorer using InPrivate Browsing. Incognito Mode in Google Chrome, Private Browsing in Firefox, and InPrivate Browsing...

Posted to Minty White by on Fri, Aug 27 2010
Filed under: Filed under: Windows 7, browser, Windows 7 Security, internet explorer, Chrome, Powershell, firefox, private mode
IE8 Beta 2 touted as a faster browser. But is it?

From a personal perspective, watching the time it takes for new tabs to load and then for the new pages to load in the tab, I’m a bit disappointed in the speed of IE8. Even Maxthon , which uses the IE8 rendering engine is much faster opening new...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Fri, Aug 29 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer, Firefox, IE8
Why Firefox 3.0’s Phishing feature is faster than Microsoft’s?

I posted the other day about how IE7 runs just as fast as Firefox 3.0 if you turn off the automatic Phishing check in IE. When Phishing is turned on IE7, IE7 contacts a Microsoft server somewhere to check against a database of known bad sites. It...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Fri, Jun 20 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet, Internet Explorer, Firefox
The Firefox effect on myITforum.com – not much

After 2 days, here’s the tally so far. Firefox activity has actually decreased slightly for some strange reason. We’ll keep watching as the weeks and days go by. The day of FF 3.0 release: The day after the FF 3.0 release: Read More...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Thu, Jun 19 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Internet Explorer, Firefox
Running Firefox 2.0 or 3.0 on Vista makes you less secure

Robert Hensing has more to say about the press coverage of FF 3.0. http://blogs.technet.com/robert_hensing/archive/2008/06/18/more-firefox-3-0-entertainment-fail-open-goat-award.aspx Read More...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Thu, Jun 19 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Internet Explorer, Firefox
Turning off automatic Phishing in IE makes IE just as fast as Firefox 3.0

This is interesting. If I turn off the option to automatically check web sites for Phishing, IE7 is just as fast as Firefox 3.0. So, how does Firefox 3.0 do Phishing checking quicker than IE? Or does it do it at all anymore? I’ll have to check...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Wed, Jun 18 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Internet Explorer, Firefox
The IE versus FF security track record

Robert Hensing posts an interesting piece on his blog, with a take on a recent USAToday article. http://blogs.technet.com/robert_hensing/archive/2008/06/18/usa-today-writes-an-article-about-ff-3-0-hilarity-ensues.aspx The bottom line, according to Robert...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Wed, Jun 18 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Security, Internet Explorer, Firefox
IE6 Vulnerable More Than 3/4 Of 2006

According to a study compiled by the Washington Post's Brian Krebs , Internet Explorer 6 was vulnerable for 284 out of 365 days in 2006. That amounts to over 77% of the year. What does that mean? It means the for 3/4 of the year there were known vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer 6 for which...

Posted to The Edge by tonybradley on Sun, Jan 7 2007
Filed under: Filed under: internet, home computer, windows xp, microsoft, security, vulnerability, patch, internet explorer, ie7, web, worm, hack, firefox, zero-day

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