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Internet Explorer 6, the browser that will not die
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| Good news for fans of Internet Explorer 6, the version of Microsoft's online
| browser that debuted in 2001. Even though the company is now up to its eighth
| version of the browser, it will continue to support IE6 until at least 2014.
|
| [...]
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| And many developers don't want to bother making their products conform to
| IE6. Mark Trammell of the Digg content rating site, blogged, "Here at Digg,
| like most sites, the designers, developers, and QA engineers spend a lot of
| time making sure the site works in IE6, an 8-year-old browser superseded by
| two full releases."
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/08/internet-explorer-6-the-browser-that-will-not-die.html
Hackers Stole IDs for Attacks
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| In addition to refashioning common Microsoft Corp. software into a
| cyber-weapon, hackers collaborated on popular U.S.-based social-networking
| sites, including Twitter and Facebook Inc., to coordinate attacks on Georgian
| sites, the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit found. While the cyberattacks on
| Georgia were examined shortly after the events last year, these U.S.
| connections weren't previously known.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125046431841935299.html
Recent:
How to beat AVG's fake traffic spew
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| This has caused an enormous spike in traffic on sites across the web,
| including The Register, and many webmasters may not realize where these hits
| are coming from. Hoping to fool malware writers, LinkScanner mimics real live
| human clicks. At least in part.
|
| [...]
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| To avoid confusion, we've updated this story to point out that webmasters are
| filtering traffic by identifying both the missing HTTP header and the IE6
| agent. It should also be noted that LinkScanner seems to be using two other
| user agents. But these are far less prevalent. At the moment, these are the
| three user agents the product seems to employ:
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| Â Â Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
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| Â Â User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
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| Â Â User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;1813)
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/02/linkscanner_fake_traffic_temporary_fix/
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