Ali Alvi's WebLog

Just read this article : http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/microsoft_antispyware.html This is a hoax ofcourse not true (BBlog is a site that provides humor via interesting concoctions) . There is (obviously) no truth to this .. IE does NOT get detected Read More...

Somewhere in one of my posts, someone mentioned Tabbed Browsing and what is stopping the IE team from putting tabs in their browser. Then again someone mentioned that they can live without tabs but they don't like BHOs taking over their machines. So I Read More...

I just came across this Phishing Vulnerability in Firefox wherein you can spoof the source URL in the download dialog box. Just another one of the many reasons to believe that without security, no amount of progress can be made. We need to make browsers Read More...

Check out Microsoft AntiSpyware (meaningful naming :) ) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&DisplayLang=en its still a beta version so there are some issues with it. Be careful when deleting Read More...

has anyone tried the MSN toolbar ? I used the beta version a long time ago. They are working on a new Beta version with Desktop Search integrated. The pop up blocker is good if you're not using XPSP2 (which you should be) Read More...

hi my name is Ali Alvi. I am a developer for Internet Explorer . I have been working at Microsoft almost for the past 4 years now with (in my opinion) the greatest browser team on the planet. I did my BS in computer science from Lahore University of Management Read More...