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Some malware exists to try and trick users into buying fake antivirus software, so it tells you that everything you try to do is a security threat. It is designed to mimic a system's messages as to fool users. It also may be re-directing the system's browser content to hacked sites, so it may be that the messages are authentic. This malware it typically very ...
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What you're looking for is to change the user agent in Chrome. To do this (latest version) you can do the following:
open the Developer Tools (Ctrl+Shift+I on Windows/Linux, Command - Option - I on Mac OS X)
click the "settings" icon at the bottom of the window
click the overrides option
check "user agent" and select one of the options or select "other" ...
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Press Win+R and type:
iexplore http://superuser.com/
Now press Enter and... that's how they do this ;)
There are two reliable ways to open links, one is by running http://example.com (system will handle it with default browser) and second one is by running iexplore http://example.com (it will run IE's executable and pass it a command line argument with ...
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It is possible that you did not remove the virus, but it still is redirecting all downloads to a malicious download site. Your browsers could be correctly identifying the downloads as malicious because they are not from a valid source, even though you think you clicked on a valid link.
It looks like the machine should be wiped and restored from scratch.
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Sure! In HTTP, either side can initiate the teardown. The most obvious scenario that comes to mind is that an HTTP connection has been kept open for HTTP keepalive, but after a while the server decides it has too many open sockets and terminates some of them. Another case would be if the client is in the middle of sending a request with a body (such as PUT ...
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The kind of information used by Panopticlick isn't the sort of thing that proxies can obscure (only the User Agent string and HTTP_ACCEPT Headers can be influenced by them).
If you're looking for a basic non-unique browser (but don't mind your IP being visible), a basic all-defaults install of Windows plus browser on a VM works reasonably well.
If you need ...
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If you want to browse anonymously, you must also refrain from using most browser plug-ins and most scripting. Proxies, VPNs, and Tor can help but will not be able to protect your anonymity if you do not also follow several other precautions. Consider using the Tor browser bundle for starters.
The Tor Project has some helpful recommendations on browsing ...
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You would need to scrape the screen every few seconds, and then save those pictures as a .gif. Then you would need to save it to a location where it can be served up by the webserver when the js requests it.
As an aside, this approach will limit you to a very low framerate (at best 1 a second or so).
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Perhaps your font settings need to be reset:
Start Search "Fonts".
In the left pane, click Font settings.
Click Restore default font settings.
Source: Link
Or try deleting your font cache:
C:\Windows\System32\fntcache.dat
Source: Link
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My guess is they achieve it by calling iexplore.exe directly rather than the system defined browser.
As to why, that is more of a philosophical question. The simple answer is because the developers are lazy. There are certain "features" of IE that are not standard and will not work with other browsers. Part of Microsoft's long standing campaign to force ...
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Sometimes you can browse a directory that has a default or index file. The only way I have found to do so is to find a sub directory on the site that lacks a default or index file and then traverse from there. For instance say you're on an image site you might get a listing by clicking on an image and then removing the image file name from the url and ...
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Fastest Search seems to do the job for Firefox. Note, however, that matching the begin / end of a line probably does not work as expect if you just use the caret (^) or dollar ($) as usual. For HTML it's unclear what these should match as the browser may wrap the text according to its window width. For plain text you have to use (^|[\n\r]+) or ([\n\r]+|$) to ...
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According to the Developers Guide: Protocol for Google's Blogger API, the query parameter to be used is max-results, like this:
http://www.blogger.com/feeds/blogID/posts/default?max-results=N
Where blogID is the blog ID number, and N is the number of posts to retrieve. The posts are ordered by last modified by default.
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You can do that with the Organize Search Engines extension.
It will replace the "manage search engines" dialog with another one which has way more options to, well, manage your search engines :)
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I might be giving Microsoft too much credit, but the Microsoft pages should most certainly always work properly in Internet Explorer unless you have a local issue. If you are getting this on any later version of IE, such as 9, likely it is an issue with you receiving the page as intended.
Try disabling Firefox's graphics acceleration. If this fixes, an ...
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