Today's News: IE -- A hard habit to break

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Published by SearchWin2000.com   July 02, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  SearchWin2000.com Career Center: Visit the Career Guide today  Top News of the Week  >>  NT loopholes lacking, Sun cease-fire short-lived SPONSORED BY: SearchWin2000.com Career Center Searching for career resources? Visit the SearchWin2000.com Career Center powered by Dice.com and find training, certification and resume resources along with over 27,000 IT job openings to search through. Get e-mails when a listing matches your search criteria, have your profile automatically sent to Dice.com member companies, access a host of career resources and tips and much more. Visit now!  Week In Review  IE -- A hard habit to break John Hogan, Senior News Writer Listen closely. The drumbeat urging people to dump Internet Explorer is getting louder. I'm going to march to a different drummer on this one, though. I'll stick with IE. The long-dormant browser wars are heating up again, thanks in part to pesky Russian scam artists looking to shake down Web users accessing sites powered by Microsoft's IIS. Because the trick of the Scob -- or Download.ject -- the attack involves exploiting IE, pundits everywhere are pushing the panic button. Read more about impact of the Scob attack on Internet Explorer, as well as a wrap-up of the week's Windows news. More on this topic: >  Experts suggest ditching Internet Explorer >  IIS attack may portend future attempts >  No support loophole for NT 4.0 >  Microsoft downplays antivirus acquisition rumors >  Sun CEO lashes out at Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat  Survival Tips for the Windows Manager   Chapter of the Week: The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals is the consummate reference to Microsoft SQL Server. Picking up where documentation and white papers leave off, this book takes an all-inclusive approach to provide the most depth and breadth of coverage of any book on SQL Server architecture, internals, and tuning. This week, check out Chapter 24, 'Finding undocumented features.' Featured Topic: Crash Course -- Spyware Spyware can be seen as a malicious thief, or as helpful if an employee is stealing company info. Read these tips and advice to learn more about spyware and how to protect yourself. Tip: Manually resetting AUTOCHK.EXE for a drive Windows maintains a piece of metadata for each volume called the "dirty bit." The dirty bit is a flag that tells the system if there are still pending changes to be written to the volume. Read more about dirty bits in this tip. TRUE IT BLOOPERS Oops! True IT Blooper #142: She's got the ink cartridge blues Find out what happens when an accountant tries to remove the protective cover off of a printer ink cartridge.  Vent!  How much experience do you have with Group Policy? Take our latest poll and sound off. White Papers Enter your e-mail and start receiving White Paper Alerts. E-mail    Not a member? We'll activate your membership with your subscription.   Contact Us   SENIOR NEWS EDITOR John Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your news, press releases and product announcements. SENIOR SITE EDITOR Marilyn Cohodas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send me your original articles and best practices. SITE SALES MANAGER Mike Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact me to sponsor this or any other TechTarget newsletter.   A B O U T   T H I S   N E W S L E T T E R Contact us: SearchWin2000 MemberServices 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 800 Needham, MA 02494 This e-newsletter is published by SearchWin2000.com, a targeted Web site from TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. TechTarget offers magazines, Web sites, e-newsletters, Webcasts and conferences for enterprise IT professionals. Copyright 2004 TechTarget. All rights reserved. To unsubscribe from "Windows Week that Was": Go to unsubscribe: http://searchWin2000.techtarget.com/unsubscribe?track=NL-118&ad=486183 Please note, unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed.