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Archive for the 'Windows' Category

Windows Vista Announced

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

I broke the news last night on ForeverGeek shortly after seeing it mentioned on a few Windows sites. Microsoft has officially announced that Longhorn, their long awaited next generation OS will be known as Windows Vista.
Todd Dominey thinks that the new moniker is no where near as aggressive as XP, but agrees that it seems […]

Well, that didn’t take long

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

Reported today by Secunia, a new Microsoft IE vulnerability has been found. I don’t think there is any indication of whether this is also a vulnerability in IE6 on XP SP2, but I am not gonna test it.
I like the solution that is given to avoid being compromised.
Solution:
Disable Active Scripting or use another product.
Doesn’t get […]

IE6 in XP SP2 RC2 too secure?

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004

So this morning I was using my XP machine. I fired up IE to register an account at a certain site giving away ipods.
I decide to complete an offer for ebay to get my credit. I click on over, create my ebay account and get ready to login. I enter my username and password, and […]

IE6 and Security For…Some?

Sunday, July 25th, 2004

Last week, I wrote a review of some of the new features in the IE6 update included in the WinXP SP2 RC2. What follows are some thoughts that have occured to me since writing that review. I was thinking about this update. It seems stable. I have no real way (or interest) in testing the […]

Internet Explorer and the XP SP2 RC2

Friday, July 23rd, 2004

How about that title, huh?
Microsoft issued Release Candidate 2 for the upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 last week. What makes this significant to some Web developers and designers is that it contains the updated Internet Explorer, with security in mind, and pop-up blocking included.
This morning I decided to install the SP2RC2 on my XP […]

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