Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, Usenet, and Gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to making it the application that…

The Internet Explorer project was started in the summer of 1994 by Thomas Reardon, and subsequently led by Benjamin Slivka, leveraging source code from Spyglass, Inc. Mosaic, an early commercial web browser with formal ties to the pioneering NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is a state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances science and engineering. NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but it provides high-performance computing…

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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has finally become the world’s most-used browser, according to Net Applications’ figures based on monitoring website usage. IE8 has taken over from IE6.

In January 2010, NetApps reckons IE8 had 22.31% of the market, with IE6 on 20.07%. Firefox 3.5 took third place with 17.01%, ahead of IE7 (14.58%), Firefox 3.0 (5.29%), Google Chrome (3.92%) and Apple Safari (3.55%). Actually, IE8’s lead is even larger if its 3% market share in “compatibility mode” is counted.

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Microsoft has released an update that fixes the Internet Explorer vulnerability behind the recent, highly publicized cyberattacks on Google and other major corporations.

The sophisticated “Aurora” exploit is delivered through common file attachments or links — typically in e-mail or other messages that appear to come from trusted sources — but proven security measures and a little common sense can negate all such threats.

The first reports of the cyberattacks that prompted Google to threaten withdrawal from China were alarming indeed. So was Microsoft’s first official response, in MS security bulletin 979352. To know more about the IE vulnerability, visit:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/979352.mspx/en-us

The flaw permits remote code execution by what Microsoft describes as a “specially crafted attack” that affects most versions of Internet Explorer:

IE 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP4
IE 6, 7, and 8 on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2

You can download the patch from the security bulletin from the below link:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-002.mspx

Security analysts and Microsoft agree that the attacks have a high social-engineering component: the targeted victims have to trigger the attacks by clicking a link or infected attachment (commonly an Adobe PDF or Flash file) delivered in e-mail, instant messages, or other electronic communication appearing to come from a trusted source.

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We are please to annouce all the IETips users that, we are about to launch the IE Tweaker Japanese version soon. However, we will be making a few changes (addition/deletion of some of the options) based on the feedback from our users.

We once again thanks every one for the great response.

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