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January 2005 - Posts

Http Debugging with Fiddler

We’ve just published an MSDN article on a tool called Fiddler . As the article explains it is very useful for http debugging and was written by Eric Lawrence one of the Program Managers on the IE team. Thanks -Dave
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IE Security Zones

Greetings. My name is Mike Friedman. I’m on the Internet Explorer Security Test Team. In IE, the different areas of the Web are partitioned into a set of security zones. The topic I would like to talk about is programmatically adding sites to those zones.
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New IE Security News Group Launches

There is now a new forum for discussions related to IE security: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.security Here’s the initial posting: Welcome Everyone, This newsgroup is dedicated to the discussion of Internet Explorer security issues. Questions/comments
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New Community Article

On the Internet Explorer Community site there’s a new article covering personalising your browser by one of our Internet Explorer MVPs. There are some great tips there that the novice user might find very useful. This is part of a series of articles on

IE Setup - From IExpress to Windows Package Installer

My name is John Hrvatin and I’m the Program Manager for Internet Explorer setup. That includes installers for security updates as well as integrating IE into Windows setup for future releases. In the past, IE has used IExpress as its installer. With the
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The 64-bit browser in Windows x64

With the delivery of RC 1 of Windows Server 2003 & Windows x64 Client last month, we shipped not one but two browsers with the OS: a 32- and 64-bit version of IE6 for Windows Server 2003 SP1/x64. We had to make a choice with the 64-bit client as to
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Internet Explorer Expert Zone Chat

On Thursday Jan 13th at 10:00AM PST we’ll be holding our regular monthly Internet Explorer chat with team members. See http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/expertzone/chats/default.mspx for details. The focus of this chat will be currently supported versions
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Security Update for HTML Help Control Helps Blunt IE Attack Vectors

Microsoft released several security updates today – MS05-001, MS05-002 and MS05-003. MS05-001 has a fix for a remote code execution issue affecting the HTML Help Control. MS05-002 contains a fix for the “X-Focus” issues. MS05-003 has a fix for a remote
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