Microsoft has sent out invites to a press event in the US on February 10th.  The “Internet Explorer” event in San Francisco will enable Microsoft to “share some important news” about the browser. The world is now seeing this as a launch event for the final version of the browser which will be crucial to [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer

A new 0-day vulnerability has been confirmed yesterday. The vulnerability affects all client and server versions of Microsoft Windows up to and including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Security Advisory 2501696 reveals that the “vulnerability exists due to the way MHTML interprets MIME-formatted requests for content blocks within a document” and that it [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Security, Windows

Microsoft SmartScreen Filter is a technology used in several Microsoft products, including Internet Explorer but also Windows Live applications such as Windows Live Messenger. Internet Explorer users can disable the SmartScreen Filter in the browser directly by going to Tools > Safety > Turn Off SmartScreen Filter. Microsoft unfortunately has not added the same option [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

The first half of 2011 will see new releases of two popular web browsers. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is the second Internet browser besides Mozilla’s Firefox 4 that will be released in this time period. Hopes are high in both cases, and preview versions that have been released until now show that the developers have [...]

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Windows 7 News is reporting that Microsoft has compiled the Windows 7 Service Pack 1 RTM release. The build number of that release is 7601.17514.101119-1850 which means that it has already been compiled last year. The build appears to have passed the quality control and is now on road to become the Windows 7 Service [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Windows

Microsoft will be releasing two security bulletins on this January’s patch day leaving two security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer and one issue affecting the Windows graphics rendering engine unaddressed. The first vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8 on all versions of the Windows operating system starting with Windows XP and ending at [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer, Security, Windows

One of the biggest threats on the Internet these days are zero-day vulnerabilities that tend to get exploited quickly by people with malicious intents. The problem with these kind of vulnerabilities lies in the fact that the majority of computer users do not update their systems immediately. Reasons for this are manifold and range from [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

A new security vulnerability has been posted by Microsoft that could allow an attacker to execute code remotely on the affected computer system. Affected are Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8 on pretty much every client and server operating system since – and including – Windows XP. Microsoft explains that “the vulnerability exists due [...]

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Windows XP stays on top of the operating system market share while Windows 7 continues to gain grounds. The latest market share statistics are in and they confirm recent trends. Windows XP is still the top operating system with a market share between 51% (Statcounter) and 57% (Hitslink). That’s a comfortable lead as it is [...]

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