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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 (Weblog) by sandi on Wed, Dec 17 2008
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Internet Explorer 7, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8
  • 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 (Weblog) by sandi on Sun, Aug 3 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
  • 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 (Weblog) by sandi on Tue, May 6 2008
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Mon, May 5 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, 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 (Weblog) by sandi on Wed, Apr 9 2008
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Sun, Mar 16 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
  • 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 (Weblog) by sandi on Mon, Jan 21 2008
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
  • 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 (Weblog) by sandi on Sat, Dec 15 2007
    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 (Weblog) by sandi on Wed, Dec 12 2007
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer
  • Vulnerability in Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) Could Allow Information Disclosure

    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...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Tue, Dec 4 2007
    Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits
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