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Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:02 PM

FIX: msfeedssync.exe crashes (RSS synchronization - IE7 and IE8)

I have over 400 RSS Feed subscriptions that I keep an eye on, and which need to be checked regularly, sometimes every 15 minutes. A couple of days ago, msfeedssync started crashing every time a synchronization was due. The errors were: Faulting application...
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Friday, November 09, 2007 6:54 AM

EOLAS: important changes soon

Well well well, isn't this interesting. Microsoft have licensed the technologies that are covered by the infamous Eolas patent , and will be removing the “click to activate” requirement in Internet Explorer. Regular readers of this blog will remember...
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Friday, September 07, 2007 9:23 AM

Revisiting the mystery user agent string IEMB3

Originally mentioned here , we have been unable to identify what is generating the UAS "IEMB3". If anybody knows, can you please reply to this entry? To repeat the original question: A User agent String (UAS) is made up of various segments that...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:03 AM

Google Desktop causing problems

Here is today's email question: "Dear Sandi, I would really appreciate your help. I've been trying for ages to find out what is wrong with my IE7 but there doesn't seem to be anything useful on the internet that I can find... Whenever...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:54 AM

Updated IE VPC images have been released

You can now download a free image of XPSP2 with IE6 or XPSP2 with IE7 installed at the link below - the images will expire on 7 December 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:32 AM

Fix: display issue affecting IE7 and autoselect

I received the following email from a reader: "I had an interesting email a few days ago from an IE7 user. He visited www.tigardchurch.org to find most of the text on the Home Page surrounded by “b’s”. I don’t own the site however; my wife is involved...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:10 AM

Iframes / objects can apparently bypass phishing protection in Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Opera 9.10 - IE7 is unaffected

As reported on bugtraq@securityfocus.com by "nsp", Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Opera 9.10 apparently fail to detect a phishing site if it is embeded in an IFRAME / OBJECT label: Demonstration pages can be seen here (warning, the URLs will prompt to install a...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:11 AM

MSXML4 to be disabled in late 2007

MS are going to push out an IE specific kill-bit for MSXML4 in October. More information here: http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2007/03/12/msxml4-is-going-to-be-kill-bit-ed.aspx Key changes: http://blogs.msdn.com/xmlteam/archive/2007/03/12/upgrading...
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Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:12 AM

IE7 and "shrink to fit" problems - emails printing very small - hotfix released

A hotfix has been released by Microsoft to the QFE branch (Quick Fix Engineering) that fixes the infamous "shrink to fit" issue that some customers are experiencing after they install IE7. Basically, when affected users try to print an email it is printed...
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Friday, March 16, 2007 5:51 AM

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and IE7 - you do NOT need to uninstall under most circumstances

Ok, so a couple of days ago Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 hit Automatic Update, catching all of us by surprise. That's all well and good, and believe me the team has heard feedback from many areas about the lack of information about the upcoming...
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Monday, February 12, 2007 6:51 PM

Vulnerability: Phishers can bypass the Firefox Phishing Filter very easily

This is far too easy; the Firefox Phishing Filter can be disasbled simply by adding an extra slash after the domain suffix. Original advisory: http://kaneda.bohater.net/security/20070111-firefox_2.0.0.1_bypass_phishing_protection.php The discovery is...
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Monday, February 05, 2007 6:43 PM

Verisign needs to sort out their site so that it works with their Extended Validation (High Assurance) Certificate

Let this be a lesson to those companies out there that are going to purchase an Extended Validation (EV) certificate - please make sure that your site is coded so that the EV will display. Extended validation certificates are not cheap, and you do not...
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Sunday, February 04, 2007 11:23 AM

Exchange System Manager and IE7 and ESM's version of PSAPI.DLL don't mix

I'm sure I've written about this before - yep, I've got info up on www.ie-vista.com on the Knowledge Base page: http://www.ie-vista.com/known_issues.html#tpa The official SBS Blog have posted an entry about a problem with Exchange System Manager and IE7...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:33 PM

Windows Vista - security updates available via Windows Update and WSUS

Microsoft have released a series of updates for Windows Vista, both x86 and x64 versions, including (finally) a phishing filter update for IE7 that speeds up Web surfing - the XP version of the phishing filter update was released a while back. Here's...
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Friday, January 26, 2007 8:12 PM

Playing with IE7 add-ons

I've been having a look at IE7 add-ins to use on my x64 Vista based system over the past few days. So far I've had a look at 3, all of which are available at http://www.enhanceie.com/ , being Find As You Type , Feeds Plus and Feed Folder . Feeds Plus...
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