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 does this each and every time you hit a page, refresh...
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 into that. Of course, turning off the Phishing...
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, is that IE7 on Vista is much more secure than...
I have just finished glancing over Mark Russinovich's latest blog entry, in which he described how he tracked down the cause of, and fix for, crashes affecting Internet Explorer on his Vista x64 gaming system, as well as crashes affecting Windows Media Player. The diagnostic steps that Mark uses...
Microsoft recognizes that it will be difficult to have all sites use the latest HTML and CSS specs that are found in IE8. To accommodate the web sites that cannot be converted at this time, they've created a work around. There are two options: a) you can modify the config in IIS 7 or b) you can add...
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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05-05-2008
Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Your questions answered
Wow. After 2 hours of pain and suffering, I ran into my own daily WTF. I had some script contained within a .js file in my web. Like many times before, I created a reference to the script in the header. However, the script would only work in the Internet Explorer family and not in Firefox. After some...
Microsoft Details Security Features in Internet Explorer 8 IE8 Beta 1 will be available to consumers this summer APRIL 8, 2008 | SAN FRANCISCO -- RSA 2008 Conference -- Microsoft will release the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8 to consumers this summer, with new security features that add more...
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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04-09-2008
Filed under: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer, Vulnerabilities, Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, viruses and exploits