What Is BitDefender QuickScan
With threats and attacks becoming more versatile by each year, come new security tools that protect users from these threats. In the past one or two years, many security companies have started […]
How To Reset Microsoft's Internet Explorer Browser
If Internet Explorer is your default web browser, or if you are sometimes using the browser on your system, you may come into a situation where the browser is not working properly […]
Google Caught Red-Handed Reaching Into Internet Explorer's Cookie Jar
The Wall Street Journal a few days ago described how Google and other advertising companies bypassed a user privacy feature of Apple's Safari browser to drop "ad-tracking cookies on [..] Safari users". […]
Privacy Initiative To Release Three Internet Explorer 9 Tracking Protection Lists
One of the new features that Microsoft introduced in their Internet Explorer 9 browser was support for so called Tracking Protection Lists. These lists can be installed in the browser to add […]
Microsoft To Push Latest Internet Explorer Via Silent Updates Next Year
One of the core issues that Microsoft is facing in the browser-war is that many users of the Internet Explorer browser are not updating the web browser. If you look at the […]
How To Add Search Engines To Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer gives you options to select a default search engine, also called search provider, during the initial setup on first start. You find a list of search providers that are currently […]
Internet Explorer Expired Cookies Cleaner
Cookies, those small data files that can do good (saving preferences or session information) or bad (tracking), have all an expiration date. The expiration date is set by the webmaster of each […]
Spellchecking in Internet Explorer 10, Test It Now
You may have heard that Microsoft plans to integrate a spell checking module into their upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10. Up until now, Internet Explorer users had to install third party […]
IE Drops to 50% Browser Market Share
It may still be in the lead but the decline of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser is slow and steady. According to the latest browser usage figures released by NetMarketShare, IE has […]
MetroIE: Run Internet Explorer 10 Metro Under Windows 7
It was only a matter of time until software developers found ways to bring features of new or upcoming Microsoft Windows operating systems to previous versions of Windows. One of the first […]
View Source Code with a Text Editor in Internet Explorer
Most users are already familiar with text editors for viewing source code and may have one of choice that they like to use. Many other users are still using the default choice […]
Windows 8 And Internet Explorer 10
Microsoft has integrated Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 3 with the recently released version of Windows 8. If you look close, you will find two different versions or styles of Internet Explorer […]
VTExplorer, Virus Total Internet Explorer Add-on
One of the handy security related services on today's Internet is Virus Total. The online can be used by people from all over the world to analyze suspicious websites or files. Usage […]
Good news, IE users aren't stupid after all
Last week we reported, somewhat sceptically I'm happy to say, about a piece of research by a company called AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting, that said that people who used Internet Explorer had lower […]
Microsoft Updates Core System Fonts To Fix Blurred Fonts Issues In Windows
Internet Explorer and Firefox users have criticized the font rendering under recent versions of Windows in the past. Some Firefox users for instance began to notice a difference after the Firefox 4 […]
IE9 decimates other browsers for socially-engineered malware protection in report
Security firm NSS Labs have been running some tests on different modern web browsers to see how they defend and protect their users against socially-engineered malware. This is malware that attempts to […]
Tweak IE9, Modify Internet Explorer 9 Settings
When you are trying to customize Microsoft's latest web browser Internet Explorer 9 you are limited by the configuration options, called Internet Options in the browser. Those options have not really changed […]
Internet Explorer Spell Checker, SpeckIE
A major user complaint when it comes to Microsoft Internet Explorer's functionality in general is the lack of a built-in spell checker to automatically correct spelling mistakes in the browser. That's even […]
Internet Explorer Gets Flash Cookies Removal
Adobe announced in January that they would better integrate Flash Player with browser privacy controls for managing local storage. It basically meant that the storage of future Adobe Flash Player versions could […]
Internet Explorer 10 Will Not Support Vista, XP
It was more or less clear that Microsoft's upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10 would not support Windows XP, considering that Internet Explorer 9 did not support the operating system as well. […]
Get the First Preview Build of IE10 Today!
Nope, this isn't a belated April fool, with Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser only just out of the door and not even delivered to many users yet through Windows Update, the first platform […]
Can You Remove Internet Explorer 8 From Windows 7?
The topic came up recently on our How To Uninstall Windows Internet Explorer 9 guide: Is it possible to remove or uninstall Internet Explorer 8 from Windows 7? The short answer is […]
DWrite.dll Wrapper, Disable Blurry Fonts, Font Smoothing In Internet Explorer 9
Firefox 4 users are not the only ones who under certain circumstances have to cope with blurry fonts in the web browser. Some Internet Explorer 9 users are also left with blurry […]
Why You Should Install Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft has released the long awaited new version of Internet Explorer a few days ago. Internet Explorer 9 is currently only available via direct download, and not via Windows Update or another […]
Disable Indexing of Internet Explorer Web History By Windows Search
Have you ever noticed web history suggestions in Internet Explorer 8 or IE9 even though you have deleted the history and the index.dat file in Windows previously? This is caused by the […]
Can't Move Menubar In Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft, for an unknown reason, made the decision to hide the menubar in Internet Explorer 9 by default. The menu bar of the browser displays the File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools and […]
How To Fix Internet Explorer Did Not Finish Installing Error
Microsoft has released the final version of Internet Explorer 9 yesterday, and most interested users won't have any problems installing the web browser, or updating their previous Internet Explorer version. Some users […]
Internet Explorer 9 Launch, All The Information You Need
Microsoft launched the final version of Internet Explorer 9 on March 14, 2011 at 9PM Pacific Time. This guide provides you with all the information needed about the launch and the new […]
Bookmarklets For Annoyances On The Internet
The Internet is full of annoyances. That does not mean that you encounter them on every website you visit, but chance is relatively high that you stumble upon sites regularly that have […]
Internet Explorer 9 ActiveX Filtering: Fix Flash, Java And Other Plugins
I have seen several reports on the Internet that users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 have troubles playing Flash videos, Java apples, games and other contents powered by plugins such as Java […]
Internet Explorer Tracking Protection Lists, Check Before Installing
Tracking Protection is a new feature introduced in Internet Explorer 9. It is a mix of an ad blocker and privacy tool that can block scripts automatically on web pages. Users can […]
Download IE9 Blocker Toolkit To Prevent Automatic Internet Explorer 9 Distribution
A final release of Microsoft's newest Internet browser Internet Explorer 9 is just around the corner. Microsoft plans to deliver the browser as an important update via Windows Update which are set […]
Internet Explorer 9 Tracking Protection Lists
Tracking protection is a new security and privacy feature that Microsoft has integrated into the release candidate of Internet Explorer 9. It will be available in the release version of the browser […]
How To Change The File Download Location In Internet Explorer
Update: The guide has been written with Internet Explorer 9 in mind. The method described below works fine in newer versions of the browser including the most recent version at the time […]
Get More Space For Tabs In Internet Explorer 9
The latest beta of Internet Explorer 9 displays open websites in tabs on the right side of the address bar. The browser ui has been designed this way to maximize the space […]
No Patches For Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities This Month
Microsoft will be releasing two security bulletins on this January's patch day leaving two security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer and one issue affecting the Windows graphics rendering engine unaddressed. The first vulnerability […]
TrendMicro Browser Guard, Explorer Security Plugin
One of the biggest threats on the Internet these days are zero-day vulnerabilities that tend to get exploited quickly by people with malicious intents. The problem with these kind of vulnerabilities lies […]
Microsoft Posts Advisory About New Internet Explorer Vulnerability
A new security vulnerability has been posted by Microsoft that could allow an attacker to execute code remotely on the affected computer system. Affected are Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8 […]
Diff-IE, Highlight Webpage Changes In Internet Explorer
Sometimes you are interested in changes on a certain web page, instead of all of the contents that are posted on it. This can be helpful to monitor forum posts, website updates, […]
Microsoft Introduces Internet Explorer 9 Tracking Protection
Consumer Privacy made it in the news big time recently in the United States with the FTC's (Federal Trade Commission) report on online consumer privacy. Microsoft, secretly until now, has been working […]
