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Feeds Plus

January 27th, 2007
by Krishna Mohan

Feeds Plus is a free IE7 add-on that adds two features to the Windows Feeds experience: aggregation and notification.
Feeds Plus
Feeds Plus, running in the background, can combine multiple feeds into a single, river of news-style feed. All the user has to do is turn on Feeds Plus’ aggregator, and every folder of feeds will sprout an aggregate feed at the top. This can be very useful – for instance, you can make a folder with all of your news feeds and then read all your news at once through the News’ aggregate feed. Read/unread information is synced between the aggregate feed and its children, and aggregate feeds are searchable just like any other feed. If multiple feeds use Simple List Extensions (SLE) then the corresponding aggregate feed will as well – this is cool because you can combine multiple different eBay feeds, and use SLE to sort by price across all of them.

A pop-up feed notification reminiscent of Outlook’s is the second feature in Feeds Plus. The Windows Feed Download Engine always runs in the background, so users have to check to see if new items have arrived. With

pop-up feed notification

Feeds Plus, the user can choose which feeds matter most to them and get a pop-up ‘toast’ as soon as those feeds have new items waiting. The pop-up is designed to be unobtrusive—it fades in and out and won’t go crazy and flash every half second—and it includes a handy link to the feeds that it’s announcing.

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Microsoft Releases First IE7 Update

December 15th, 2006
by Krishna Mohan

Microsoft released first update for IE7 (not for Windows Vista). This update resolves a performance issue with the Phishing Filter. When visiting certain web pages, the Phishing Filter may increase CPU usage while evaluating the page contents and the system may become slow to respond. This problem occurs on pages that contain multiple frames or when multiple frame navigations occur quickly. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

Download: Update for Windows XP with Service Pack 2, x86-based versions
Download: Update for Windows XP Professional, x64-based versions
Download: Update for Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, x86-based versions
Download: Update for Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, x64-based versions
Download: Update for Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, Itanium-based versions

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Fake login pages fool Browsers

November 23rd, 2006
by Krishna Mohan

Mozilla’s Firefox 2 and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. Dubbed a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR, vulnerability by its discoverer, Robert Chapin, the flaw lets hackers compromise users’ passwords and usernames by presenting them with a fake login form.

Firefox Password Manager will automatically enter any saved passwords and usernames into the form. The data is then automatically sent to an attacker’s computer without the user’s knowledge, according to the Chapin Information Services site.

An exploit for this flaw has already been seen on social-networking site MySpace.com, and it could affect anyone using a blog or forum that allows user-generated HTML code to be added, according to Chapin. “Users of both Firefox and Internet Explorer need to be aware that their information can be stolen in this way when visiting blog and forum Web sites at trusted addresses,” Chapin said.

According to security company Netcraft, which discovered the exploit being used on MySpace, a fraudulent login page was hosted on the company’s own servers.

Source: News.com

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