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Posts Tagged ‘Internet Explorer security’
New patches for internet explorer
Microsoft Corporation about to release security updates, online attackers have begun exploiting a new flaw in the company's Internet Explorer (IE) browser. The flaw was made public in Chinese-language discussion forums two days ago by the Knownsec security team. In tests, attacks worked on IE 7 running on Windows XP, Service Pack 2 (SP2). Attackers have ...
Clickjacking puts browsers at high risk
Security researchers warned today that a new class of vulnerabilities dubbed "clickjacking" puts users of every major browser at risk from attack. Details of the multiple flaws -- six different types, by one count -- are sketchy, because the researchers, who presented some of their findings at a security conference earlier ...
Reloading a corrupted page
A page may be corrupted if a previous user interrupted its transmission and an incomplete page is stored in cache, or a user may wish to download a new copy of a page to ensure it is the most up-to-date.In Netscape Navigator, hold the Shift key and press Reload (Macintosh ...
Use an independent browser
In the same vein, if your web browser (what you are using to read this) can accomplish a number of other things on your computer, perhaps that is because it is made by the same company that made your operating system. It's very convenient to use, isn't it? You can ...
Use a simple email client
The biggest problem is e-mail. E-mail can deliver a virus/trojan program right to your computer that can destroy your computer (or do any number of nasty things) with a single click if your e-mail program is able to automatically do a bunch of other things. For this reason, it is ...
A simple cross-browser technique
This site may harm your computer can avoid by following a simple cross browser technique. Here it goes 1. First, download the blockPorn.pac file (right-click on link, select Save target as...) to a location on your local hard disk that is accessible to everyone a) Open Internet Explorer b) Pull-down Tools ...
Cookie
A cookie is information that a Web site puts on your hard disk so that it can remember something about you at a later time. (More technically, it is information for future use that is stored by the server on the client side of a client/server communication.) Typically, a cookie ...
Using registry editor for security zone
Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk. You can use Registry Editor ...
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