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Another day, another Internet Explorer security hole

Forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but yet another Internet Explorer security hole has been revealed. Is there no end to the ways that IE can be broken into? It doesn’t look like it!

In this latest flaw, there’s an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers can use to drop malware on 32-bit Windows [...]

March 2nd, 2010 | Category: Internet, Microsoft, Network, Operating System, Security, Web browser, Windows | 2 comments

Replace IE6 with anything but IE 8

I can’t stand IE (Internet Explorer) 6. I’m in good company. Most people hate it. Even Microsoft can’t find a kind word to say for the 8+ year old Web browser. While I’ve liked IE8 at first as a possible replacement, as I’ve continued to use it, I’ve found it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

First, [...]

February 16th, 2010 | Category: Google, Internet, Microsoft, Network, Security, Web browser, Windows | Comments are closed

The Snoopy Google Toolbar

No one is accusing Google of being Big Brother, but it certainly was eye-opening when Ben Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, shows that newer versions of Google Toolbar, versions 6.3 and above, was tracking Internet Explorer 8 users actions even when it was ‘off.’

Of course this begs the question, “Is there someone [...]

January 27th, 2010 | Category: Google, Internet, Network, Security, Web Services, Web browser, Windows | Comments are closed

Chrome 4: King of the Web browser hill?

Firefox 3.6 has just come out and it’s great. There’s only one problem. Google has released the new version of Chrome, version 4, and it’s even better.

This new version retains its speed lead over other browsers. I tested it on one of my Dell 530S desktop PCs. This PC is powered by a 2.2GHz Intel [...]

January 26th, 2010 | Category: Development, Google, Internet, Network, Open Source, Standards, Web browser, Windows | Comments are closed

The IE Fix is in

I still think that the safest thing you can do about your Web browsing habits is to switch from IE (Internet Explorer) to Firefox or some other browser. But, if you’re wedded to IE 7 or 8 — please, please stop using IE 6–Microsoft has made a fix available for all versions of IE. If [...]

January 25th, 2010 | Category: Internet, Microsoft, Network, Operating System, Security, Web browser, Windows | Comments are closed
 
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