Windows XP users were advised by Microsoft today, to not to press the F1 key when prompted by a particular website. This warning serves as part of Microsoft’s reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers have been able to exploit of late – all in attempts to hijack computer systems suspected of running Internet Explorer [...]
04.7.10 | Computer Safety Tip | admin
Given all the variations of Internet Browsers out there these days, many computer users have more than just one browser installed, complete with differing bookmarks, add-ons, etc. Whether a PC user makes use of Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, or Opera, there should be a tool one could use to backup all [...]
09.17.09 | Computer Tips And Tricks | admin
AVG launched AVG LinkScanner as a free standalone product. AVG LinkScanner examines in real time the web pages behind links and URLs to assess their possible danger. Available free for Windows XP and Windows Vista users, it’s designed to offer an extra real-time layer of protection for web users who already use a security software [...]
05.23.09 | Software Review | admin
During the Pwn20wn contest at CanSecWest, three of the most used web browsers, Apple’s Safari version 3.2.1, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 8 and Mozilla’s Firefox version 3.0.7 were found to be vulnerable to an arbitrary code execution. One of the authors of these vulnerabilities is Nils, a computer science student, who discovered the vulnerability in [...]
04.18.09 | Software Review | admin
After IE8 was released at MIX09, Microsoft sent out an e-mail its testers announcing the RTW build and thanked them for their hard work. Microsoft said that all “Postponed bugs are now active for consideration in the next version of Internet Explorer,” the software giant also told testers that bugs could still be filed, but [...]
04.15.09 | Computer News | admin
We never heard about security flaws in rival browsers to Internet Explorer, but this past week Firefox, Opera, and Safari all got patched as well, leaving only Google’s Chrome as the safer alternative after Microsoft released yet another critical update to IE. Firefox patched up four serious flaws in Version 2.0 and three in Version [...]
01.7.09 | Computer News | admin
We never heard about security flaws in rival browsers to Internet Explorer, but this past week Firefox, Opera, and Safari all got patched as well, leaving only Google’s Chrome as the safer alternative after Microsoft released yet another critical update to IE. Firefox patched up four serious flaws in Version 2.0 and three in Version [...]
01.1.09 | Computer News | admin
There are reporting’s that all current versions of Internet Explorer (6, 7 and Beta 8 ) have a precarious bug. Microsoft portrays the vulnerability as “an invalid pointer reference in the data binding function of Internet Explorer”. The theory of “bind” is similar to that on the mainframe familiar to DB2 users. A few security [...]
12.29.08 | Computer News, Software Review | admin
Microsoft Corp issued a warning of a “huge increase” in attacks abusing a critical unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) and said some originated from hacked pornography
12.17.08 | Computer News | admin
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