If you've been keeping abreast of security issues with the Microsoft Security Advisor, then you're already aware of the new (latest?) Internet Explorer browser bug: the Cross Frame Navigate bug.
The patch is a new version of the file "mshtml.dll", which you can download from this Internet Explorer Security page. Note that the patch is for IE 4.01 and up. If you're not running IE 4.01, you have to first upgrade to that version before applying the patch.
| To see this in action, make a file "c:\text.txt", then open Georgi Guninski's Demonstration Page. Visit Georgi Guninski's Home Page for other Internet Explorer security woes. Beware all the Geocities pop-up windows, though. |
SP4 finally?
According to Stephan98.com, we ought to see Service Pack 4 this week! Once again, it will include enough (like Internet Explorer 4.01 and the Option Pack, as well as all the fixes to date) to more-than-justify getting the CD shipped to you. To keep updated, visit the Microsoft Backoffice Download and Trial Center, and scroll down to Service Packs. When it becomes available, it will be listed there, and you'll be able to order the CD from that site as well.
Workstation on the Cheap
Microsoft is cutting the price of NT 4.0, sort of: if you buy at least 5 copies of NT Workstation through the Microsoft Open License Program, you'll pay only $99 (instead of $238) per license. However, you also have to buy a 2-yr upgrade cycle for an additional $177, putting the total cost of NT 4.0 at $276, up $38, but including a free NT 5.0 Workstation upgrade.
PCIx
In last week's column, I went over the hardware that will be required to run NT 5.0 decently, specifically higher-end PCI chipsets, like the 440BX and the new 440GX (both having a speedier bus between the system memory and the chip).
Now this week, there's been word of a new PCI bus standard which might make the 33-66MHz peripherals bus of the current PCI look comparatively slow: PCIx is a spec-in-the-works by IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Compaq which runs PCI peripherals at 133MHz. It is intended to be a bridge between the current PCI chipset and the chipset Intel's designing for Merced, and both Microsoft and Intel have responded approvingly.
Internet Speed Revisited
Back in February, I did the Improving TCP/IP Performance? article which basically suggested that utilities like MTU Speed (which is now merged with "TweakDUN", it seems), essential for Windows 95 connections, simply weren't necessary for NT 4.0 (MTU Speed had just been released for NT 4.0, causing a rash of newsgroup inquiries into the need for such a utility on NT).
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