How to Report a Malicious Website to the SmartScreen Filter in Internet Explorer 9

One of Microsoft’s leading technologies that protect us from the dangerous web is the SmartScreen filter in Internet Explorer. Since the filter is crowd-sourced, it helps tremendously if you do your part, so let’s take a look at how to report a malicious website.
Reporting a website in Internet Explorer is made extremely easy and can be done from the Tools menu.

Navigate over to the safety section.

Now click on the Report unsafe website option.

This will open a new page where you will be asked if you think the site is performing a phishing attack or distributing malware respectively. Check the box most appropriate to your situation or both if necessary, fill in the CAPTCHA and hit the submit button.

That’s all it takes to do your part if you stumble upon a malicious website, providing you use Internet Explorer of course.

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Repair Internet Explorer with Fix IE Utility

We are pleased to release the Fix IE Utility v 1.0. This freeware portable utility re-registers all the concerned dll & ocx files required for the smooth operation of Internet Explorer.

Simply extract the contents of the .zip file and run the  utility.

If you face any problems while running IE, maybe after recovering from a malware attack, and if you find that the Reset Internet Explorer feature does not help you, run this tool to re-register around 89 dll & ocx files, which are required for the smooth running of Internet Explorer.

Fix IE Utility has been tested on IE 7, IE 8 and IE 9, on Windows Vista & Windows 7.  Before running the utility, make sure that all your Internet Explorer windows are closed.

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Microsoft: Web plug-ins are bad, mkay?

In September, Microsoft announced that the Metro version of the Internet Explorer 10 web browser, to be released alongside Windows 8, would not support any plug-in programs in favor of HTML5-based programs. Today, in a new Microsoft blog post, the company repeated that news but also offered web site designers a way to transition their sites when the Metro version of IE10 is used by their visitors.
If a web site still requires some some of plug-in program in order to be viewed or used, web site developers can insert either an special HTTP header or meta tag that will tell Metro IE10 users to switch to IE10 for the regular Windows desktop. That version will still support plug-ins like Adobe Flash. You can see that message in the image above.
Even though Microsoft is giving web designers an easy way for Metro IE10 users to view the site using the desktop browser, the company would still prefer that web sites simply ditch plug-ins entirely. As John Hrvatin, Internet Explorer's Program Manager Lead, writes:

The transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Any site that uses plug-ins needs to understand what their customers experience when browsing plug-in free. Lots of Web browsing today happens on devices that simply don’t support plug-ins. Even browsers that do support plug-ins offer many ways to run plug-in free. Metro style IE runs plug-in free to improve battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers.

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IEFix - General purpose fix for Internet Explorer

 

IEFix - is a general purpose repair utility for Internet Explorer which repairs Internet Explorer by registering it's core DLL files and reinstalls using the IE.INF file. More Information is given below. Suitable for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP systems.

Requires Microsoft VB6 runtimes for Windows 98/ME systems.

Download: IEFix ( Zip ~14Kb)
(IEFix v1.6) May 19, 2006

Fixes the following problems

• When you click a hyperlink in an e-mail message or on a Web page, or right-click a hyperlink on a Web page and then click Open in New Window, you may experience one or more of the following issues:
  • Nothing happens
  • The new window may be blank
  • You may receive a scripting error message

• When you use the Print command or the Print Preview command in Internet Explorer, nothing may happen.
• When you try to connect to Web folders, you may receive the following error message: "The current operation could not be completed because an unexpected error has occurred."
• Internet Options Advanced tab is completely blank.
• Internet Explorer About box version information is completely blank.
• Address bar search does not work.
• Unable to type in text boxes in a search engine or website.
  
  
  
  

  IEFix Usage

• Download IEFix and run it.
• Click the Apply button.
• You'll be prompted for the Operating System CD or the Service Pack Files location:

• If you're using Windows XP, insert the Operating System CD. For OEM systems, point to the Operating System source path when prompted. If you've applied a Service Pack separately, you need to insert the Slipstreamed Operating System CD (if you have one) or point the installer to the ServicePack source path when prompted (see Fig 2 below). Mention the path as  "C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386" or "C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles"

• If you don't have the Windows installation CD, and if the installation source files are not present in the hard disk, you may click Cancel when you see a dialog similar to Fig 2 below. IEFix will continue with DLL registration part.

Fig 2

• Restart Windows

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Feature Focus: IE10 checks spellings and correct automatically

Microsoft adds built-in spell check and auto-correction to Internet Explorer 10 aka IE10. While most of modern web browsers come with built-in Spellchecking capability like Firefox and Chrome, IE10 has auto-correct in addition that distinguish it from all.

IE10 has the first browser-based implementation of auto-correct.
The feature ‘Spell check & auto-correct’ identifies misspelled words while typing and fixes commonly misspelled words automatically, and take corrective action on others viz. Add to dictionary and Ignore just like Microsoft Office Word.
Windows 8 comes with several capabilities to make text input experience and IE10’ spell check one of them, and available seamlessly across the entire operating system.
Since it is IE10 specific feature, it will be available to all supported Windows platform (including Windows 7)
You can try out this capability using the spellchecking test drive demo using Internet Explorer 10 in the Windows Developer Preview.

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Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4 (PP4) released

Microsoft updates Internet Explorer Platform Preview and releases Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4 for developers. This release comes with newly added platform capabilities.

The Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4 also enables developers to start working with additional site-ready HTML5 technologies, some of which include:

• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) for safe use of XMLHttpRequest across domains.
• File API Writer support for blobBuilder allowing manipulation of large binary objects in script in the browser.
• Support for JavaScript typed arrays for efficient storage and manipulation of typed data.
• CSS user-select property to control how end-users select elements in a Web page or application.
• Support for HTML5 video text captioning, including time-code, placement, and captioning file formats.

Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4 is available for download on IE Test Drive website. This release is only supported on the Windows 8 Developer Preview (Build 8102).

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