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...
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...
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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...
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Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 has not received any information to indicate that...
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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 according to the current codepage. The meaning of...
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 that a recent US High Court decision cast doubt...