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A Quick IE Fix
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| The first one disables the peer factory class
| in the Windows registry. 'Peer factory' is
| used by the iepeers.dll binary program in IE 6
| and 7 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to
| call some kinds of Windows functionality from
| within IE. The most common way it's used is to
| print from IE. The downside of this fix, as
| you might guess, is that it will stop IE's
| print functionality from working.
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http://www.itworld.com/security/100744/quick-ie-fix
Will Internet Explorer 9 be any safer?
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| While Microsoft seems focused on some good
| things, like improving IE's speed and finally
| making it more compatible with the forthcoming
| HTML 5 standard, I didn't see a lot about
| improving the program's own built-in security.
| Indeed, this early test-drive model doesn't
| even include IE 8's SmartScreen anti-malware
| filter and private-browsing function.
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http://www.itworld.com/security/101035/will-internet-explorer-9-be-any-safer
Recent:
My frustration with Internet Explorer.
http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2010/02/28/my-frustration-with-internet-explorer/
Microsoft has another IE flaw
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| CURSED BY ITS HAIRBALL CODE, Microsoft has
| released another security warning relating to
| a bug in Internet Explorer.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1590449/microsoft-ie-flaw
Microsoft to patch 26 holes in Windows, Office
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| Microsoft will patch 26 holes next week,
| including critical ones in Windows, one
| affecting the kernel of 32-bit versions, and
| several holes in Office, the company said
| Thursday in a preview of its Patch Tuesday.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10447678-245.html
Related:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
New Zealand teenager convicted over international cyber crime ring
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| Owen Thor Walker, 18, known by his online name "AKILL," was involved in a
| network accused of infiltrating 1.3 million computers and skimming millions
| of dollars from victims' bank accounts.
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http://news.smh.com.au/new-zealand-teenager-convicted-over-international-cyber-crime-ring/20080301-1vzs.html
No April Fools'--Storm worm is back
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| The compromised computer will then install the downloaded file as C:
| \WINDOWS\aromis.exe. Nazario reports that the botnet file opens the firewall
| using the netsh firewall set command, makes a lot of outbound connections,
| then listens on a random UDP port.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9906880-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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