Home Page Hijacking with BHO
Internet Explorer has a way for a website to add itself to the list of favorites. It’s a feature Microsoft added so that websites can have a button that says “Bookmark This Site! Just Click Here!”
Category Archives: Internet Explorer
Surfing the web anonymously
When you surf the web it is possible to learn information about you even when you don’t want to advertise who you are. This is true even if your system contains no virus or malware software.
Internet Explorer Stops Playing Media
You might notice that after installing some third-party media players, Internet Explorer will no longer play audio or video files or both. Here’s how to fix it.
IE Favorites Menu Grayed Out
If the Favorites menu is missing or grayed out in Internet Explorer, there may be a registry key that is causing it.
IE8 Loads Pages Slow
Tried Internet Explorer 8? You may be experiencing slow page loading, especially when multiple tabs are in use. Here’s a possible fix.
Turn off IE ESC in Windows Server 2008
Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration can be a real drag. Now I’m not condoning surfing the web from a server. Far from it. If you decide to surf the web from your server, that security and stability risk is stictly your own.
Remember CTRL+F ?
You’re looking for something on a long web page with Internet Explorer or Netscape. You think it’s there, but you’re faced with seemingly insurmountable number of paragraphs, sentences, and words to hunt though.
Enable and Disable Cookies
Cookies are handled very different in Internet Explorer 8 than they are in older versions of IE. Here’s how you can enable or disable them.
Cross-Domain Redirect Vulnerability in Internet Explorer
A cross-domain vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running IE.
Red X Instead of Image in IE7
If images aren’t loading in any web pages in IE7, there may be a setting that somehow got turned off. You can find the setting with the steps below: