You use the document.open method with the replace parameter in Windows Internet Explorer 7. In this scenario, the content of a Web page does not appear to update as expected. When you click the Back button, the updated content appears. Source: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/933182
In Windows Internet Explorer 7, a Web site cannot set a cookie if the following conditions are true: • The Domain attribute is in uppercase characters. • The Domain attribute has an odd number of characters. Note: If the Domain attribute starts with a dot, this dot is not included in the number of characters. […]
In Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, a Web site cannot set a cookie if the following conditions are true: • The Domain attribute is in uppercase characters. • The Domain attribute has an odd number of characters. Note: If the Domain attribute starts with a dot, this dot is not included in the number of characters. […]
“My goal with this project was to build a retro keyboard that was fully functional and of a sufficient quality that it could be used everyday by a touch typist. In order to achieve this I chose a high quality (though widely available) keyboard as my starting point. This is an IBM Model M “Clicky” […]
Yoda (the msmvps.com server) had some surgery overnight so things are a bit messy around here. My favorite skin is missing in action for the time being. Please forgive me while I play around and tidy things up. Unfortunately Secunia Statistics seem to be broken at the moment. I’m working on sorting that out. All […]
Australian IT news has an interesting report about the story behind an attack against a US State Department using a previously unknown Word vulnerability which was later patched by Microsoft. The article describes what was a targeted attack on the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs via an employee based in Asia – […]
Today I attended a seminar entitled “Web Threats: Challenges and Solutions” held by Trend Micro. The speaker was David Perry, Trend Micro’s Director of Global Education, a gentleman who has been fighting the good fight against the bad guys for quite a few years now – he has a Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Perry_(Trend_Micro)) and his professional […]
So, what do we do about an advertising network like ValueClick that will not clean up its act? A network that has been implicated, over and over, in the spread of malware? An advertising network that was involved in the infiltration of the Windows Live Messenger banner advertisement by winfixer malware? Wayne Porter notes that […]
One of my goals for this week was to upgrade an installation of Trend Micro’s Client Server Messaging Security Suite from v3.5 to 3.6. Being a minor points upgrade, with no big changes under the hood, I was confident that it would be another smooth upgrade. Feedback from other Trend aficionado seemed to indicate that […]
Now I really *have* seen everything. Yesterday was ‘hair and nails’ day, so off I went to my local shopping centre for some well earned pampering. Imagine my amazement when I noted a new piece of equipment in the ladies’ loo – the hand dryer had been replaced with a new fangled, fancy schmancy piece […]