My family and I are on holidays for a few weeks, so things will be quiet around here. I am not planning to do any blogging until mid-October. That being said, keep an eye on my blog; there is an announcement already written and scheduled to go live in my absence [;)]
This issue occurs because of a change in behavior in Internet Explorer 7. In Internet Explorer 6, the ShellWindows object is associated with the following CLSID:{9BA05972-F6A8-11CF-A442-00A0C90A8F39} This object is a COM local server that exists for each desktop. When you use the CoCreate function to create a ShellWindows instance, the instance is bound to the […]
Symptom 1 The POST method or the GET method may encode certain characters as Unicode numeric character references. For example, these methods may encode あ as %26% 2312354%3B. This problem may occur in Web pages that contain Japanese characters. Additionally, the Web pages are marked with a charset of windows-31j in the HTTP headers. Symptom […]
Microsoft quietly added detection of the “Storm” family of malware to the September build of its Malicious Software Removal Tool. The MSRT is released as part of the monthly security update cycle (although I do wish it was updated more often – it can be an extremely effective tool in the fight against malware, as […]
As noted here, a vulnerability involving Firefox and QuickTime was reported, and code advising how to take advantage of that vulnerability has been published. As noted by Mozilla, “Disabling JavaScript in the browser does not protect against this attack; in vulnerable versions scripts passed through the -chrome option would be executed regardless of the JavaScript […]
The IE team have blogged about the release of a new version of the SiteLock Template for ActiveX Controls. I can’t stress strongly enough how important it is that developers place security first when developing controls. Over the years there have been numerous instances where ActiveX controls have exposed a vulnerability that has been exploited […]
On a computer that has Windows Internet Explorer 7 installed, you may be unable to use an FTP application to upload a file to a remote server. This problem occurs if the application is based on WinINet FTP functions. This problem occurs because of an access violation that is caused by the InternetWriteFile WinINet API […]
This link, when clicked on in Outlook, generated an error message in IE7 (The original URL is now changed, so don’t try it): http://www.castlecops.com/a6827-eChecks_and_Credit_Charges_–_I_Didn’t_Authorize_That.html The error was: Internet Explorer cannot read this webpage format HTTP 406 What you can try: Go back to the previous page. More information This error (HTTP 406 […]
We’re taking a real family holiday in a few weeks – the first one that we have taken as an entire family in a very long time – and it is very special – Singapore then Cairo, then Frankfurt, then Zurich, then Paris, then Versailles, then Mont St Michel, then Neuschwanstein Castle. Anyway, I’m hoping […]
This is nothing short of unbelievable. “A VENEZUELAN man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.”