Internet Explorer

Secunia Research has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.The problem is that a website can inject content into another site’s window if the target name of the window is known. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious website to spoof the content of a pop-up window opened on a trusted website. Microsoft spent over a 100 million dollars (USD) a year [1] in the late 1990s, with over 1000 people working on IE by 1999.Formerly called Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE), Internet Explorer (IE) is the name of Microsoft’s browser that enables you to view Web pages on the Internet using a graphical interface. Internet Explorer was first introduced in 1995 and it is the most popular browser used today. The latest official release, Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) was made available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista. This version included the popular tabbed browsing option, a feature first used by Mozilla in 2001, a new feed reader, and other features.

The Internet Explorer Maintenance Extension is part of the Group Policy Object Editor, and it enables you to define an Internet Explorer configuration as part of a Group Policy Object (GPO). The GPOs are linked to Active Directory containers such as sites, domains, or organizational units, and enable administrators to manage the Internet Explorer configuration for multiple users on any computer joined to the domain.Already interested parties are fracturing. The big companies have essentially given up on the browser prefering to adopt a platform founded on XForms and SVG. They’ve effectively killed any growth of the browser. They are looking at a clean slate, which is more revolutionary than building upon the web in its current form.

Currently, IE is only developed for use for use on Windows computers. IE operates on Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT® 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Almost any personal Windows computer in use today can run Internet Explorer. However, users of Linux or Macintosh computers must use another Web browser.Document frames can be used to subdivide Web pages such that the content associated with each division comes from a different server or domain. These “iframes,” or inline frames, often are used for serving ads, which typically come from a different domain than content that appears on the same Web page.