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News Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.
[12 May 2008]
News The proportion of users on all versions of IE fell by 10 per cent. Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is taking a while to catch on, with just 6.3 per cent of enterprise users on the OS by the end of 2007.
[02 Apr 2008]
News IE 7 programme manager, Steve Reynolds, wrote in a blog post: "With today's 'Installation and Availability Update', Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation and will be available to all Windows...
[09 Oct 2007]
News Rolling out these types of AIR-based apps means hours of mind-numbing testing and re-jigging of code because of huge inconsistencies between Safari, Mozilla, IE etc. Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture.
[19 Jun 2007]
News At Microsoft's Mix '07 conference in Las Vegas this week, IE platform architect Chris Wilson recapped the software behemoth's development priorities in the making of IE 7 and outlined some of its goals for the next version of its browser.
[04 May 2007]
News IE 7 protected mode shields the computer against drive-by installations because the browser is restricted to where it can write files. A new security vulnerability puts Windows users at risk of serious cyber attacks, Microsoft has warned.
[30 Mar 2007]
News The vulnerability relates to the message IE displays when web page loading is aborted, Raff wrote. Following the reload link on that page will display the attacker's website with the address of the trusted site in the IE 7 address bar, Raff wrote.
[15 Mar 2007]
News The DoT also bans Vista, Office 2007 and IE 7. Windows Vista has been banned by the US Department of Transportation (DoT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Nist). The agencies have cited fear of compatibility problems as one...
[14 Mar 2007]
News Microsoft has promoted the security of both IE 7 and Windows Vista. The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSirt) said in an alert that the IE vulnerability, which also affects IE 6, could be exploited in phishing attacks.
[27 Feb 2007]
News In the case of IE, the problem affects the latest version - IE 7 - and probably earlier releases, Zalewski wrote. One is similar to the IE problem, while the other could let miscreants change cookie files stored on a PC running the vulnerable browser.
[19 Feb 2007]
News In early January, the software giant made a change on its computer systems that allowed websites fitted with a new type of security certificate to display a green-filled address bar in IE 7, Markellos Diorinos, a product manager for Windows at...
[05 Feb 2007]
News In addition, Vista includes parental controls, and IE 7 has a filter to block phishing scams. All major security software makers, as well as many smaller ones, will have products available for Vista when the operating system is launched to...
[18 Jan 2007]
News All recent versions of Windows are vulnerable when all recent versions of IE, including IE 7, are in use, according to Microsoft. Computer code that exploits a security vulnerability in Windows has been published on the internet, making it more...
[17 Jan 2007]
News All recent versions of Windows are vulnerable with all recent versions of IE - including IE 7 - according to Microsoft. Microsoft yesterday released fixes for vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software but left several known Word zero-day...
[10 Jan 2007]
News The previous software contains a security flaw that could cause other applications such as Microsoft's IE to crash, or prompt users to be involuntarily logged out, the spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman said Messenger should be compatible with IE 7...
[18 Dec 2006]
News He said: "In IE 7 Microsoft fixed old vulnerabilities but new vulnerabilities are being found. Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted 90 per cent of current malware will run on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista.
[12 Dec 2006]
News Both the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 web browsers are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. Dubbed a Reverse Cross Site Request vulnerability (RCSR) by its discoverer Robert...
[23 Nov 2006]
News Tim Callan, a director at VeriSign, said anti-phishing guards in IE 7 - which will warn users off malicious websites where they may be asked to submit personal information such as bank or credit cards details - will help restore badly damaged...
[27 Oct 2006]
News Mozilla shipped Firefox 2 on Tuesday, nearly a week after Microsoft released IE 7. A day after shipping Firefox 2.0, Mozilla largely rebutted two claims of security flaws in the latest version of the web browser.
[26 Oct 2006]
News IE 7, released last week, allows a website to display a pop-up that can contain a spoofed web address, security monitoring company Secunia said on Wednesday. The problem lies in the way web addresses are displayed in the IE 7 address bar, a...
[26 Oct 2006]
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