Browser Security News

…The Opera browser, which has been around for years, recently released its ninth version. Opera was the first browser to offer many enhancements that are now included in others, including tabbed browsing. And its latest version has some cutting-edge features, such as voice recognition and one that allows you to add notes of your own [...]

This version removes cleanly both WGA Notification ‘Pilot’ version and ‘Final’ version, it should theoretically not be needed anymore to directly unload the WGA notification in live from memory and to risk a blue screen (BSOD).
If RemoveWGA finds the final WGA notification version, it "disables" the file WgaLogon.dll by preventing the SYSTEM account to access [...]

Warner Bros. Studios, home to Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo and Harry Potter, said yesterday that it plans to terminate a business relationship with Zango Inc., an adware company that has been offering free games on the Warner Bros. Web site in exchange for permission to install a computer program that could push advertisements and pornography.

The Mozilla Corporation yesterday released Firefox 1.5.0.5. The update corrects a number of security vulnerabilities, seven of which are labeled critical in Mozilla’s bug tracking software Bugzilla. Although the update is mainly a security update to the popular web browser, it also makes improvements to the browser’s stability. It is recommended that anyone using [...]

IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "high priority" update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary Schare, Microsoft’s director of IE product management, said in an interview Tuesday. Automatic Updates is a Windows feature typically used for security updates, but Microsoft has also used it to push its antipiracy tool [...]

A new Trojan horse making the rounds has been installing itself as a Firefox extension, according to security company McAfee.
The FormSpy Trojan attacks computers that have already been infected with the Downloader-AXM Trojan, according to a security advisory McAfee issued Tuesday. Once FormSpy is executed, it installs itself as a component of the Firefox Web [...]

A small hacker has little to pray for these days, as MySpace and unpatched Internet
Explorer are enough to get him all the access he wants. An advertisement for deckoutyourdeck.com, found in so many MySpace sites and profiles, exploits a well-known vulnerability in Internet Explorer’s handling of WMF files. Which means that you needn’t click [...]

After all, the technigentsia have long proclaimed that mentioning "IE" and "security" in the same breath is akin to oxymorons like "jumbo shrimp," "friendly fire," and "priceless junk."
But nearly 80 percent of the world’s surfers use IE. They can’t all be dim.
They’re not, and neither is Microsoft, which after five years of resting on the [...]

For a long time, there was nothing to talk about in web browsers. You used Internet Explorer, and that was it. Oh, to be sure, some Mozilla/Netscape holdouts clung to their ways, as did a smattering of users of Opera, Konqueror, and other obscurities. Internet Explorer itself hasn’t had a major version change since the [...]

Many Web users have turned to Firefox for its stripped-down, streamlined operation (and because it’s less of a target than IE). One of the benefits is a huge aftermarket for add-ons that extend the open source browser’s feature set. Feast your eyes on the following collection of free tools, ad-blockers, performance tuners, and tabbed-browsing enhancers. [...]