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Internet Explorer Out of Band Update Released

 

As expected, Microsoft has released an update for IE6 and IE7 which they considered serious enough to get out ahead of the normal monthly Patch Tuesday scheduled for April. That is a fix for Security Advisory 981374.

Also included in today’s update is a collection of routine fixes that were due to . . .

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Internet Explorer Cumulative Update Expected on 30 March 2010

The Microsoft Security Response Center has given everyone a heads up at their team blog about what they call an Out-of-Band (not scheduled) release for an Internet Explorer Cumulative Update Releasing Out-of-Band update.

This update is in response to Microsoft Security Advisory (981374) which is a vulnerability in Internet Explorer which . . .

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Lets Talk Old Web Browsers and Online Safety

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I recently started using a very slick plug-in on my website to track stats – it is called StatPress Reloaded.  I have only had it running for a couple of days but an interesting thing has popped out of the details:

Almost half of the visits I have had in the . . .

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Deleting IE7 RSS Feeds in Bulk

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I recently went and removed 100% of the feeds I was subscribed to in Outlook 2007 – over 50 of them – and yes I know that is small compared to some.  Information Overflow was in full force and I needed to create some space to refocus a few different things I do.

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Internet Explorer 7 Time Out Over!

Well I previously mentioned that I had taken a break from using IE7 on my main computer at home beacuse it caused two problems for me. One was breaking the link to webpages from within Outlook Express. It would open a Windows Explorer window at the C drive instead of the . . .

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Pausing with IE7 Beta 2 Preview

Well as I posted in an earlier entry, I have been giving the IE7 Preview a run.  I really enjoy the tabbed browsing, integrated RSS reader and other features however, I am having to abandon it for now.

Twice now it has broken my ability to click links in OE to . . .

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