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FIX: The content of a Web page does not appear to update as expected when you use the document.open method in IE7

April 25th 2007

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

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HOTFIX: A Web site cannot set a cookie if the Domain attribute is in uppercase characters and has an odd number of characters in IE7

April 25th 2007

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. […]

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HOTFIX: A Web site cannot set a cookie if the Domain attribute is in uppercase characters and has an odd number of characters in IE6

April 25th 2007

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. […]

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The best retro keyboard I have ever seen

April 25th 2007

“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” […]

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Changes to Spyware Sucks

April 24th 2007

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 […]

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So now we know… the story behind a "limited attack"

April 24th 2007

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 – […]

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TrendProtect from Trend Micro – a competitor for McAfee Site Advisor

April 23rd 2007

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 […]

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The ongoing winfixer saga

April 22nd 2007

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 […]

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Oops: an upgrade from Trend Micro CSM 3.5 to 3.6 goes bang

April 21st 2007

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 […]

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Advertising advertising everywhere… even in the ladies’ loo…

April 21st 2007

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 […]

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