Monthly Archives: March 2006

IE6 vulnerabilty patch

Posted on March 28, 2006 by Ilfak Guilfanov

If you are one of unfortunate users still forced to use the Internet Explorer, consider installing this temporary patch from Determina: http://www.determina.com/security_center/security_advisories/securityadvisory_march272006_1.asp Just do not forget to reboot your computer after applying the patch, the installer seems not to insist … Continue reading →

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Coverage analyzer

Posted on March 27, 2006 by Ilfak Guilfanov

Sometimes we want to perform the coverage analysis of the input file: to find areas of the program not exercised by a set of test cases. These test cases may come from a test suit or you could be trying … Continue reading →

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On uninitialized variables

Posted on March 14, 2006 by Ilfak Guilfanov

Quite busy week, sorry for being silent. I wanted to talk about an annoyance I discovered with all my C/C++ compilers. Here is quite interesting presentation from Halvar Flake: Attacks on uninitialized local variables After reading it I wanted to … Continue reading →

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