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Yet another IE only problem…

Posted on July 7, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Yet another IE only problem…

Well, it seems that another problem with Active X Video has gone Zero Day. Drive by (click by?) attacks are now exploiting the hole in the MS972890 advisory. This only affects IE, and only XP and 2003, so yes it is rather limited, but XP and 2003 are still very prevalent in the world. The…

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Google Chrome: Whats the big deal?

Posted on May 8, 2009 By Michael Kavka 1 Comment on Google Chrome: Whats the big deal?

So I finally decided to check out Chrome for myself. With all the hype and talk about it, I figured I better at least see what it is like. The install took far longer than what I had expected for a “streamlined” installation. Once installed, it was never able to finish copying settings from my…

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Google Chrome has more Patches

Posted on May 6, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Google Chrome has more Patches

So Chrome updates itself silently, which can be a good thing, unless the patches require a restart of the browser. If this does happen you all of a sudden get a notice saying, “Changes have been made, you need to restart for them to take effect, ” or something along those lines. I get it…

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