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Firms Use IE6 to Stop Employees Wasting Time on Facebook

Firms Use IE6 to Stop Employees Wasting Time on Facebook

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Microsoft Australia's chief security advisor Stuart Strathdee has said that Internet Explorer 6 was being used by several companies wanting to block access to sites like Facebook from the office.  The security expert explained that because IE6 is based on outdated technology, the now-aged browser fails to render advanced websites like Facebook and other social networking websites, making IE6 a popular choice for companies trying to prevent employees from...



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If you haven't upgraded your browser in a while then there are a number of very good reasons you should. A modern web browser will be much more secure than an out-dated one, even one that is fully patched. It can protect you from...


Internet Explorer 6 is Dead in the US Says Microsoft

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Software giant Microsoft has reported that its decade old Internet Explorer 6 web browser is official dead in the United States. According to the company, less than 1 percent computers in the United States are running the web...


Microsoft Releases Patches for 23 Vulnerabilities to Internet Explorer, Silverlight-Windows Vista and More

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Tuesday, October 11 is Patch day for Microsoft which has queued up fixes for 23 vulnerabilities. However, IT administrators will have to deal with just a few critical flaws. Thus, it is a fairly light Patch Tuesday. Microsoft...


Late News: WordPress End Support For IE 6, PlayStation Network Store Returns May 24, No Memory Leaks In Internet Explorer 9

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WordPress has announced that the blogging platform will no longer support Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 web browser. The ten year old web browser continues to be used by many, who don’t pay attention to warnings that they...


WordPress No Longer Supports Internet Explorer 6

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WordPress has announced that the blogging platform will no longer support Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 web browser.The ten year old web browser continues to be used by many, who don’t pay attention to warnings that...


Microsoft Pushes Internet Explorer Patches Out

Microsoft Pushes Internet Explorer Patches Out

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Microsoft, the company behind the Zune music player, has dished out an emergency update for its troubled Internet Explorer web browser, citing increased attacks as the reason forcing the company to release an early...


Microsoft Working On "Serious" Flaw Affecting Internet Explorer 6 & 7

Microsoft Working On "Serious" Flaw Affecting Internet Explorer 6 & 7

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Microsoft is rushing to release a security patch to address critical vulnerabilities in IE6 and IE7 that could enable hackers to dump malicious codes into victim’s computer and seize control over the system’s...


Microsoft Sends Bouquet For "Funeral" For Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft Sends Bouquet For "Funeral" For Internet Explorer 6

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Colorado based designer firm, Aten Design Group, hosted a 'funeral' for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 web browser, 'mourning' the 9 year old web browser, after support for it stopped by several prominent web services including...


Microsoft Announces Brand New Zero-day Internet Explorer Flaw

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Microsoft has warned that there is a new weakness in Internet Explorer decidedly porous armour, one for which there are currently no solutions, possibly until next Tuesday when Microsoft goes ahead with its Patch Tuesday...


Petition To Kick Out Internet Explorer 6 From Public Sector Goes Live

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A petition has been started on the UK government's official petition site to encourage the public sector to move away from Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 to a more secure platform.The petition, the brainchild of Dan Frydman,...


Internet Explorer 8 Displaces IE6 As Most Popular Browser

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Data released by Market intelligence firm NetApplications confirms that Internet Explorer 8 has finally overtaken Internet Explorer 6 as the most popular browser in the world. IE8 accounted for 22.31 percent of the global browser...


Google To Discontinue Support For Internet Explorer 6

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Search engine giant Google has announced that it will not continue to provide support for its Google Docs and Google Sites on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 web browser. The company mentioned in a post on its official blog...


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Ask any webmasters working on fairly large projects what their biggest bug bear is and it is likely that they will come up with the words, IE6, short for Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft's long obsolete web browser. The software...


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France has joined Germany into recommending that its citizens give up Internet Explorer 6 and move either to IE8 or another alternative.  Earlier today we reported how the German government warned computer users across the...


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Certain versions of the hugely popular Internet Explorer browser have been reported to be under a new threat by a previously undiscovered flaw. The users of IE6 and IE7 have been told to keep their anti-virus updated and block...

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