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- Images: Future Firefox fitting in
- Mock-ups illustrate how Firefox developers are working to make the upcoming version 3 conform with the look of the OS on which it's running. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, firefox 3, browsers, mozilla, TechRepublic Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Web Browsers, Internet, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-19
- Are you phishing with all the tools at your disposal?
- As an editor for TechRepublic, my search for information, confirmation of facts, and the general probing for article/blog/download ideas often involves surfing the Web. On one such occasion a couple of years ago I trashed my workstation PC by clicking a hijacked link on a Google search results page. The...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Security, Internet Explorer 7, IE7, Browsers, Antivirus
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- How to fully de-gunk a PC of Crapware
- One of the most hated things on the Personal Computer is Crapware. It slows your PC down to a craw, often causes instability and crashes, eats up valuable screen real-estate, and may even border on Malware. I started on this topic a few months ago with a partial solution but...
- Tags: Microsoft, Security, Desktop, Browsers, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Office feature bloat is no skin off my nose
- In is recent blog entry, fellow blogger David Berlind has been all over Microsofts "Office bloat" and is convinced Google is in a better position to understand users needs for an Office application. Despite the fact that Microsoft collected 1.2 billion data sessions to design its new Office 2007...
- Tags: Microsoft, Desktop, Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Stunning Microsoft Labs Photosynth preview
- Microsoft Live Labs now has a working preview of their Photosynth technology technology overview and Video. The preview initially only worked for newer versions of Internet Explorer but now theres apparently a Firefox plugin for as well but it only works on Windows XP SP2 and Vista at this...
- Tags: Security, News, Microsoft, Fun Stuff, Consumer electronics, Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Why is Microsoft hell-bent on ruining its reputation?
- Microsoft had multiple chances to release a patch for the ANI Animated Cursor Exploit in the months of January, February, and March but failed to release any patches for the vulnerability that was originally disclosed privately to Microsoft on December 20, 2006. Now were getting an emergency patch today, one...
- Tags: Vista, Security, News, Microsoft, Hardware, Desktop, Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Firefox ANI exploit on the way - no protected mode
- Determina is previewing a version of the ANI exploit that will hijack Mozilla Firefox 2 as well as Internet Explorer 7 running on Vista with default DEP settings mostly turned off. DEP could have stopped this exploit from running, but its turned off for most applications in Windows by default....
- Tags: Vista, Security, Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Think 'Patch Tuesday' is just for Microsoft? Think again!
- Multiple Cisco vulnerabilities affecting IPS functionality in routers, PIX/ASA/FWSM firewalls, Switches. Multiple Cisco vulnerabilities affecting SIP/FTP/HTTP inspection in PIX/ASA products. While the patches are available, most Cisco devices are rarely if ever patched. For example, here is a long list of issues within the last three months...
- Tags: Security, Mobile/Wireless, Networking, Vista, Hardware, Desktop, Browsers, VoIP, critical flaw, critical vulnerability, flaw, vulnerability, Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., denial of service
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Strange punctuation
- Can anyone tell me what causes the kind of punctuation substitution you see in the sentence below? We see this in Outlook, IE 6 and 7, and Firefox. A judge has ruled Anna Nicole Smiths body must stay at the medical examiners office until a dispute over her daughters paternity...
- Tags: Encoding, rperschau@..., Western-European, windows, e-mail, browsers, Language Options
- Discussion threads 2007-02-14
- ALERT - Super Bowl website can infect your computer!
- WebSense is reporting via Suzi Turner that the Super Bowl XLI / Dolphin Stadium website has been compromised with malicious code. With all the traffic going there with the Super Bowl coming up, a lot of people will get infected. A link to a malicious javascript file...
- Tags: Security, News, Browsers, Malware alert, Super Bowl, Websense Inc., computer, Web site
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Disagreement over impact of Vista's analog hole
- Since my initial report on the Vista analog hole and getting confirmation of the flaw from Microsoft, Microsofts MSRC blog downplayed the significance of this exploit and said that there was "there is little if any need to worry about the effects of this issue on your new Windows Vista...
- Tags: Security, News, Vista, Desktop, Browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, analog hole, attack
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Vista Speech Command exposes remote exploit
- One gentleman on the Dailydave security mailing list started a discussion about the potential for exploiting Vistas speech recognition feature by hosting malicious sound files on a website that would playback a series of audio commands to try to subvert the Operating System. The man didnt actually test any...
- Tags: Browsers, Desktop, Microsoft Windows Vista, News, Security, Vista, Vista Speech, Vista Speech Command
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- S. Korean addiction to ActiveX stalls Vista adoption
- South Koreans are being advised by their Government to postpone their adoption of Windows Vista until theyre sure theyll be able to bank online and other web activities. The problem it seems is that Korea has almost universally adopted ActiveX technology for all of their "online banks, portals, game...
- Tags: ActiveX, Browsers, Desktop, financial company, Infrastructure, Microsoft Windows Vista, News, Security
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- Browsers do no display sites fully
- I have an XP Pro install that does not display web sites correctly. The background colors and shading is missing making the pages look flat. Looks like the css is not displaying. It has effected IE7 and fresh install of Mozilla.
- Tags: accent_video@..., appearance, browsers, display, Web browser, windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- Talking trash about Internet Explorer is a waste of time
- I agree to an extent...I agree generally with the article. I use Firefox and Opera because I think they are far superior products, but for the group Intranet and Sharepoint sites I have to use IE because of the AD tie-in.some corrections1. Opera is not open source.2. Netscape...
- Tags: apotheon, brows, browsers, firefox, internet explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, netscape, open source, opera, software, Web browser, windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- Internet Explorer 7 problems
- By now it's no secret that IE7 breaks a lot of websites. What some people may not think about is the fact that, because IE is also a core OS library, a lot of apps will also be affected. They may fail, or they may function incorrectly/differently.I'd like to see...
- Tags: browsers, feedback, ie, it management, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, problems, software, Tachyon, windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-13
- Critical Mac QuickTime zero-day exploit released!
- A zero-day Apple QuickTime flaw for Mac OS X has officially kicked off the MoAB Month of Apple Bugs. The exploit has been "100% reliable for a current up-to-date x86-based OS X system". Anyone wishing to confirm the vulnerability in their own Intel-based Macs can click on this...
- Tags: Apple, Apple QuickTime, Browsers, exploit, Security
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- Online email accounts held hostage for blackmail
- Websense is reporting that a new form of cyber-extortion has emerged in recent days that exploits the promiscuous nature of cyber-cafes and PC-terminals. By stealing email credentials from unsuspecting shared-terminal users, the attackers steal all the victims emails and contacts and then sends a single message in the email...
- Tags: Browsers, e-mail, Mobile/Wireless, Security, Websense Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- IE 7 comes a-knocking--eventually
- Correct link to the image galleryMicrosoft pushes IE 7 installationhttp://news.com.com/2300-1032_3-6098689.html
- Tags: browsers, news, ie 7, networking, software, windows, Sonja Thompson, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Discussion threads 2006-11-14
- Firefox 2.0 (New features aplenty in Firefox 2.0)
- Extension heavenThere are a host of extensions for Firefox which make it very useful for my clients in a work environment:-Spiderzilla, which allows them to mirror a web site directly from the browser-IE View, for those ill-designed web sites (s
- Tags: browsers, firefox, software, Ian Thurston, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, FF2, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Web
- Discussion threads 2006-11-14
