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Microsoft DRM tool locked out genuine users
News A small storm brewed up in internet forums as users found themselves locked out. Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage servers experienced severe disruption over the weekend, stopping users validating their Microsoft software.
[August 28, 2007, 17:32]
Debian developers locked out after server hack
News The Debian GNU/Linux project has locked a number of its developers out of their system accounts following a security scare in which the hack of a key internal server was discovered this week. An investigation of developer passwords revealed a...
[July 14, 2006, 15:25]
Users locked out of Google Mail
Talkback I've been locked out of google mail since last thursday, is anything being done to rectify this?
[June 4, 2006, 19:33]
Users locked out of Google Mail
Talkback I have also been locked out since the 31st. Getting a 404 Error every time I try to get to the page. Not sure what is going on as I have been unable to find ANY info on this in the media, but I was glad to find your post and see I was not the only...
[June 4, 2006, 2:37]
Users locked out of Google Mail
Talkback I was locked out of my Gmail account for 24 hours on 2 June. This is not the first time. It happened about a month ago when I nearly lost an editing job that depended on my receiving important attachments.
[June 2, 2006, 22:23]
Users locked out of Google Mail
Talkback I have been locked out of my gmail account for the past 36 hours since 31 May 2006. Is there anyone else suffering the same inconvenience? Any solution suggestions?
[May 31, 2006, 1:20]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback Is there a way, say in php to automatically authenticate and pass into an .htaccess directory without the popup dialog? Thanks for any ideas. This patch has me scrambling.
[March 26, 2004, 8:22]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback Well, once again, we have the dumbing down of features in a product.features which are vulnerable to attack. Sure, we could all use brain-dead browsers, but then we lose support for even more features.
[February 7, 2004, 23:14]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback With all the better browsers out there for the PC, why do you people stick with the piece of trash that is IE? Do you worship the beast from Redmond so much? Hello! Opera anyone? Better yet, buy a Mac and be done with all of Microsoft's shenanigans.
[February 5, 2004, 17:07]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback This isn't exactly news. Microsoft was advertising this bahavior change about a week before this patch was issued. Anyone who passes the username and password in the url needs some serious classwork time anyway.
[February 4, 2004, 17:40]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback This recent gift from Microsoft has screwed up all the update forms for software that we sell to Web hosts, who have real estate agents who want to maintain their listings on the Web. As you can imagine, we are pretty annoyed to get this kind of...
[February 13, 2004, 7:20]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback Classwork? Maybe you should go back to school, .htaccess is used for a variety of purposes and those that develop for this type of functionality and those that currently use and pass "passwords" in the URL have been left with hours and in many...
[February 7, 2004, 19:05]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback I must be a "criminal" because each time I try to access Microsoft Internet ExplorerI get the following: "You have performed an illegal operation. Microsoft Internet Explorer will shut now shut down".
[September 19, 2004, 20:26]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback A whole week? And that wasn't enough time to not only become aware of the news but also enough time to find everything that might give problems and solve those problems along with some serious testing?
[February 4, 2004, 22:56]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback It's perfectly valid to pass username and password in a URL - eg over SSL, or within an otherwise secured network.schema]//[user]:[password]@[host]:[port]/[url-path] is defined in RFC 1738. The staggering thing *should* be that a major software...
[February 5, 2004, 9:02]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback Who will refund me for changing my identification system wich is perfectly safe?
[February 6, 2004, 17:19]
Users locked out of Google Mail
Talkback My husband hasn't been able to access Gmail since Wed 31st May on his PC yet he can open the account from his mobile? Do Gmail have either a help desk phone number or perhaps a web site with an online explanataion?
[June 2, 2006, 14:19]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback Hello, Does anyone here have an alternative solution to this problem. I've been serahcing through the internet but stil can't a good solution to it. Anyone, please help. Email : limcwb@sph.com.sg Thanks so much
[June 4, 2004, 3:26]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback Insert this in the registry and all user/passwords is remembered again: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE] iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000 explorer.exe"=dword:00000000...
[February 5, 2004, 10:30]
Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out
Talkback With all the better browsers out there for the PC, why do you people stick with the piece of trash that is IE? Do you worship the beast from Redmond so much? Hello! Opera anyone? Better yet, buy a Mac and be done with all of Microsoft's shenanigans.
[February 5, 2004, 17:06]
