Author: Jani
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Internet Explorer 7 vulnerability discovered
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information. […] Secunia has confirmed the vulnerability on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2. Other versions may also be affected.
Secunia via Tietoviikko
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Internet user admits 'web-rage'
An internet user has been found guilty of what police said was Britain’s first
web-rage
attack.Uh, no, he admitted unlawful wounding, which he’d inflicted on a guy he’d spoke to and tracked down on the Internet.
Some particularly pathetic tabloid-style
news
coming from BBC these days; thesome guy speculates on future human evolution
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IE 7 for XP Released
Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie.
The Finnish version is still lagging at RC1 while writing this.
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RefControl (for Firefox): Control HTTP Referer on a per-site basis
Control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis. You create a list of sites, and the referrer that should be sent for each site. You can choose to send that referrer unconditionally or only for third-party requests.
I use it to get rid of goatse pictures thrown in my face when clicking on links pointing to certain sites from 3rd party link lists.
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Video iPods Shipped With Windows Virus
We recently discovered that a small number […] of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006, left our contract manufacturer carrying the Windows RavMonE.exe virus. This known virus affects only Windows computers, and up to date anti-virus software which is included with most Windows computers should detect and remove it.
