Internet News

Welcome to our new section, called Internet News. The purpose of this secton is to provide links to interesting and new technologies and news that are of interest to you, the Internet user. We won't cover in depth technical news, if they are not necessary for using the Internet. We are always checking the latest developments and improvements and will give you a short outline of the article here. If you are interested in knowing more about this, you will find a more button, which will take you to the full article, which is not from us here, but from other sites.

The second part of this section is called hotspot, where we will cover a special topic each month. This can either be a site review, introduction of new software or technologies or anything similar. At this point, your action is required. What topics would you like to be covered here ? Even you can write an article for the hotspot. Contact us for details

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Hotspot

This month's hotspot:

• Internet Explorer 4.0
  Netscape has already released a preview of Communicator 4.0. Now it's Microsoft's turn. IE4.0 previews are about to be released.

Next month's hotspot will be about SPAM !

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Internet News

Internet Explorer 3.0 security whole found and fixed
Recently a security whole in IE 3.0 was discovered. Microsoft has already posted a fix for Win95 and NT 4.0 users. Other versions will follow during the next weeks. More Information can be found at:

• IE 3.0 security update (Microsoft)
• Cybersnot Industries: Internet Explorer Bug (Cybersnot)
• IE 3 security hole (C-Net)
• IE flaw opens security risk for computer users (InfoWorld)

New Internet Explorer 3.0 security whole found
A new, different Internet Explorer security whole has been discovered. The whole may allow hackers to remotely retrieve files or install a Virus. It is not yet said, if this only applies to IE 3.0 for NT and/or Win95. More Information can be found at:

• New IE security whole found (CNET)

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