Apr 6, 2008
This isn’t the first time when Feedburner has provided wrong stats for my feeds. Last time many big bloggers were hit when Google acquired feedburner and the RSS feed stats for most of them changed to zero!
Later on again the problem came up when many bloggers complained that their Google Reader stats were not being counted and this resulted in their feed stats falling down but luckily I was on the safer side in that second glitch.
Now it looks like Google had remembered that they had spared me the last time and so this time my feed burner stats have gone down by over a 100 just because my email subscribers aren’t being counted. Irritating and true!
Any of you face the same problem or is it just me?
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Feb 20, 2008
Secunia has released a “highly critical” vulnerability for various versions of Internet Explorer.
Versions Affected?
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x
How can this vulnerability be exploited?
- An error in the way HTML with certain layout combinations is interpreted can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page.
- An error in the way the “by” property of an “animateMotion” SVG element is handled can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page assigning other DOM elements to the property.
- An error in the argument validation when processing images can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted web page.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.
Solution
Microsoft has release patches to fight the vulnerability.
ELSE USE FIREFOX and surf the internet without any problems.
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Feb 19, 2008
It’s been almost a month when Microsoft announced a security breach in various versions of Microsoft Excel. They wrote about some details of the vulnerability but didn’t explain clearly about the solutions. Updates were promised after some research was over and it has now been more then a month since the research process is on. Someone knows when will they be releasing the update?
Software Affected
- Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2.
- Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003.
- Microsoft Office Excel 2002.
- Microsoft Office Excel 2000.
- Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac.
Software NOT Affected
- Microsoft Office Excel 2007.
- Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac.
- Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 3.
How it works
The vulnerability can be exploited if an attacker uses a specially crafted Excel file with malformed header information. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code on victims computer.
Solution
Not yet released! Although as a precaution whenever you get some Excel file as an attachment do confirm about the attachment with the sender before opening the file. And do keep a check on this page to see when a patch is released.
More: Read about some more highly critical bugs found in our archives.
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Sep 12, 2007
It is obvious that the daily users of Google search engine use Google toolbar in IE or the Google FireFox extension to do there searches. It is always the newer lot which is new to Google and Internet that goes on to use Google.com homepage to perform there searches.
Now if you visited iGoogle page any day and it is there in your Internet history and then you type google.com in your address bar than you will be redirected to iGoogle homepage. Nice way to force you to visit iGoogle.
Have a look at the video showing the Google blunder to you.
[via SearchEngineJournal]
More Google Blunders:
My Feedburner Readers Are ZERO! Google Murdered All Of Them Suddenly
xxxdisc.net is Google’s Look Alike By All Means
Google’s Technical Errors Deletes User Accounts By Mistake
“Google Advisory” Points To Broken Link & Expects You To Learn About Computer Security From It
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Sep 9, 2007
I don’t know if this happened to everyone but yes it has happened to many and I am also the victim! I was shocked today to see that my Google Feedburner count is ZERO?
I have personally also registered to my feeds just to keep a check daily if the feeds are working and the feed seemed to work currently too. But I do not know what on earth Google has done that killed all my readers? Give me my readers back…please!
My current readers are ZERO and readers for comments are also ZERO. Yesterday they were 81 and 1 respectively!
It has been few days when I shifted to wordpress from blogger and I had the fear that I might loose my feedburner readers but thanks to labnol feedburner faq I did not loose even one of my readers!
But poof Google wont let me sleep tonight I guess! I hope they work on this very soon.
Did you also loose your readers? Do reply in comments.
UPDATE: 3 hours have passed since I wrote this article and Google seemed to have fixed the bug. I have my readers back. Living secondlife 
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