http://www.extremetech.com/computing/143274-internet-explorer-flaw-lets-websites-track-your-every-mouse-movement-and-ms-refuses-to-fix-it

Internet Explorer flaw lets websites track your every mouse movement, and MS refuses to fix it

If you don’t want to be tracked, you do have options available. Firstly, you can switch to a different browser. Chrome or Firefox are fantastic options, and they aren’t affected by this flaw. Secondly, you could turn off JavaScript in IE. While this does hinder the usefulness of most modern websites, it will prevent IE from passing on your mouse movements. These aren’t optimal solutions, but Microsoft has given us little choice in the matter. Unless it steps up and patches this flaw, it just isn’t safe to use IE with JavaScript turned on.

http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/20161-system_explorer_portable

Developer: Mister Group

http://betanews.com/2012/12/04/system-explorer-4-0-beefs-up-stats/

System Explorer 4.0 beefs up stats

The Mister Group has released System Explorer 4.0 and System Explorer 4.0 Portable, a major new update of its freeware system resources monitoring tool for Windows.

Version 4.0 tweaks the program’s color schemes for making text more readable, plus updates its Performance and Networking sections to show more information.

SystemExplorer 4.0 and System Explorer 4.0 Portable are both freeware downloads for PCs running Windows XP or later.

Yikes, thanks for sharing, hotdog.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Internet-Explorer-security-examined-1721876.html

Internet Explorer security examined

Security expert Brian Krebs has illustrated how different statistical approaches can provide differing perspectives on browser security. For example, if you simply count vulnerabilities, Internet Explorer compares well with its competitors. If, on the other hand, you look only at vulnerabilities which are actually exploited, Internet Explorer fares comparatively poorly, says Krebs.

Krebs calculates that 275 vulnerabilities were reported for Google Chrome in 2011, 97 for Mozilla Firefox, and only 45 for Internet Explorer. Using this method, Internet Explorer appears to be have a solid security story. However, looking at the statistics for zero day exploits actually spread by malicious web sites, Internet Explorer ranks far behind other browsers.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Internet-Explorer-10-Is-the-Fastest-Browser-Better-than-Chrome-20-and-Firefox-13-293242.shtml

Internet Explorer 10 Is the Fastest Browser, Better Than Chrome 20 and Firefox 13 (I have Firefox 15.0.2.0) old test ?

Internet Explorer 10 is only available in Windows 8

Website performance analysis company Strangeloop recently performed a new test with the most popular browsers on the Internet, revealing that Internet Explorer 10 is the fastest app of its kind at this moment.

No less than 2,000 retail websites have been included in the test, based on their ranking on Alexa.com. Strangeloop used WebPagetest to measure page loading times of Google Chrome 20, Firefox 13 and Internet Explorer versions 7 to 10.

The results are a bit surprising, as IE10 was named the fastest browser on the Internet because it loads pages 8 percent quicker than Google Chrome 20. IE10 was also faster than Firefox 13, according to the long report released by Strangeloop.

The average page loading time for Internet Explorer 10 is 6.392 seconds, while Firefox comes second with 6.395 seconds. Google Chrome 20 is “the slowest” of the three, with an average time of 6.906 seconds.

What's more, Strangeloop says that websites are loading 9 percent slower than in 2011, despite the clear evolution of today's web browsers. This happens because pages feature much more complex content, including large and HD media files.

The only problem, however, with Internet Explorer 10 is that it is available only for Windows 8 users

http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-8-build-843x-screenshots-leak-reveal-windows-explorer-name-change

Windows Explorer name change

The Windows Explorer in Windows 8 is now called the File Explorer instead.

all new names hope you like ?

http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-8-rt-compatibility-artwork-leaked-same-windows-8-artwork

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/253034,microsoft-dont-compare-ie9-downloads-to-firefox-4.aspx

Microsoft says comparing browsers is like apples and oranges, as Firefox wins on downloads
Microsoft has attempted to cast doubt on Firefox 4's download success, saying comparisons between the Mozilla browser, Chrome and IE9 aren't fair.

The trio of browsers were all recently updated, leading many to compare the number of downloads - which Microsoft said was "premature at best, and misleading at worst."

Mozilla claimed 7.5 million downloads in the first day - well over the 2.3 million Microsoft recorded on IE9's debut day a week earlier. Firefox 4's download tracking page claims more than 48 million at the time of publication.

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/253377,firefox-4-beating-ie9.aspx

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/251348,ie9-a-8216non-event8217-for-most-businesses.aspx

IE9 a ‘non-event’ for most businesses
With no Windows XP compatibility as of yet, the release of IE9 will mean little to most companies.
Most corporate IT departments will not be affected by the release of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), largely because of its current incompatibility with Windows XP, according to an analyst.

thanks for all your ongoing updates, Hotdoge3 - much appreciated.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/ie9-vs-chrome-10-vs-firefox-4-vs-opera-1101-vs-safari-5-the-big-browser-benchmark/12023

Note: This post has been updated for the final release of Firefox 4.

Here are the browsers that will be run:

Internet Explorer 9 (9.0.8112.16421) 32-bit
Internet Explorer 9 (9.0.8112.16421) 64-bit
Firefox 4
Chrome 10.0.648.151
Safari 5.0.4
Opera 11.01

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunascape_(browser)

is it fast ? do You like it chazzo125 any info be good Thanks in ad**
Lunascape is a web browser developed by Lunascape Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. It is unique in that it contains three rendering engines: Gecko (used in Mozilla Firefox), WebKit (used in Apple Safari and Google Chrome), and Trident (used in Microsoft Internet Explorer).[2][3] The user can switch between layout engines seamlessly.

I hardly ever use IE8, and have no intention of getting Win 7! Google Chrome is ok but on the basic side! My browser of choice is Mozilla Firefox. Lunascape is an interestingly different browser, as it 'tiers' multi-tabs!

IE9 just seems an anarchistic remnant of some long forgotten age!

IE9 is NOT compatible with Windows XP as they like you to get windows 7

http://www.itknowledge24.com/

TweakIE9 (New!).Download: x86/x64 | Documentation
Screenshot
http://www.itknowledge24.com/tweakie9.png

http://www.betanews.com/article/Take-control-of-Internet-Explorer-9-with-TweakIE9/1300148016?awesm=betane.ws_11j

Microsoft have once again shot themselves in both feet. IE9 is NOT compatible with Windows XP, Heaven knows why!

Considering that VERY many XP users with older machines are unlikely to upgrade to Vista or Win 7, perhaps Microsoft could have the courtesy to upgrade IE8 (Some Hope.....?!)

Mozilla Firefox 4 on the other hand runs absolutely fine under XP, though one or two features may be unavailable depending on your CPU/Graphics card.

http://www.howtogeek.com/56012/internet-explorer-9-released-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

IE9 has what could essentially be considered “FlashBlock” built right in—just head to Safety-> ActiveX Filtering, and turn it on from there…

From now on, whenever you go to a site that tries to use an ActiveX control like Flash, you’ll have to click the little icon in the address bar to enable it.

The new combined search/address bar is smart same as Google Chrome,looks like Chrome Firefox ?

http://digitizor.com/2010/11/17/internet-explorer-9-caught-cheating-in-sunspider-benchmark/

MS automatically updated my PCs yesterday with the IE8 patch update. Great!

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2256465/mcafee-launches-operation

McAfee launches Google hack scanning tool Aurora Stinger will detect the threat and repair the machine

http://vil.nai.com/vil/averttools.aspx McAfee Labs Tools

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1587918/ancient-windows-flaw (3.1 to 7)

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5268&tag=nl.e539 (kill IE6 & IE7)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002 :
Internet Explorer Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (978207)
is available on Windows Update or download it manually.
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The new Firefox version 3.6 is available:
releasenotes FF 3.6

Looks like Chrome would be the best choice. Take a look at this Pwn2Own competition, its a zero day attack on browsers.I was very surprised by the results, other than Safari being the first to go down.

People always think that Macs are safer, which is completely untrue, its just that the hackers go were the money is and there are more PC's. This means Mac's are attacked less and the security flaws are not found.

The other top three browsers were taken out a little while after that by one guy and an exploit of his own making.

They said they found a security flaw in chrome, but couldnt get past the sandbox.

Miller also told reporters that he targeted Safari on Mac OS X because he believes that it is the easiest to exploit. Windows, on the other hand, he claims is tougher because of its address randomization feature and other security measures. As for Chrome, he says that he has identified a security bug in Google's browser but has been unable to exploit it because the browser's sandboxing feature and the operating system's security measures together pose a formidable challenge.

JoanRC, I'm with ya on Linux and have tried to migrate to several times, I even have several partitions setup to install linux again. I did this whenever I got windows 7.
i've just been waiting for them add support for my motherboard and processor and I'm ready to go. It's super annoying to to enter on every install pc=nomsi, half the time I still have trouble installing my video card.

The benefits though, well worth it. games and everything are so fast!

From what I hear, Chrome has a lot of "phone home" features built in. It sends a lot of information about your browser habits back to Google. However, it's open source. At least one company, SRWare, has come out with a Chrome version, called Iron, that has stripped out all the spyware features. Their website doesn't show that they've been developing the browser since Sept of 2008, though. I still use Opera because Secunia Software Inspector still calls it the safest browser. (That was before I switched to Linux. Secunia doesn't work on Linux.) Opera doesn't always have the best Flash support; but, I still manage to get what I want out of Youtube.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/011910-researchers-up-ante-create-exploits.html?ts0hb&story=ie7ie8

Researchers up ante, create exploits for IE7, IE8

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143518/Chrome_sets_browser_security_standard_says_expert?

All browser makers should take a page from Google's Chrome and isolate untrusted data from the rest of the operating system, a noted security researcher said today.

Google Probes Possible Inside Job after China Cyber-Attack

from Daily Finance:

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/google-probes-possible-inside-job-after-china-cyber-attack/19321261/

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/187119/dont_kill_the_messenger_blaming_ie_for_attacks_is_dangerous.html?tk=nl_dnx_h_crawl

one of the malware samples exploited IE...but it's easier to blame MS for them all...

There are quite a few sites, besides Microsoft, that just do not work right unless you use IE. I keep it around for those sites.

And now the French have joined with the Germans in advising not to used IE France teams with Germany over IE flaws.

It will interesting to see how the browser share of market figures change during the next few months.

(Iron? that's really caught the public imagination...)

Sorry, but Firefox is buggy bloatware IMHO.

A much better browser is Iron, which is similar to Google Chrome, except that some cunning German chappies have removed everything in Chrome that 'reports back' to Google from it.

PS: Don't forget that Windows Update usually requires you to be using IE when you access it (or at least, that's been my experience!).
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/chinese-hackers-exploited-flaw-in-microsofts-internet-explorer-mcafee/article1431444/

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Recent-attacks-on-Google-exploited-previously-unknown-hole-in-IE-905439.html

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Warning-over-using-Internet-Explorer-from-German-Government-as-exploit-goes-public-906173.html

The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser (Get Firefox)

Well if you stayed away from IE for the most part it probably would be a good idea :)

And the Germans are saying don't use IE BBC News

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3233160/Microsoft-blamed-for-Google-China-attack

Recent cyber attacks on Google and other businesses exploited a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, according to security firm McAfee.