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Another security loophole in ie

Thanks to spywareinfo, which i've just caught up on reading, it has been discovered that if you ever use the Whats Related function in Internet Explorer,close it and then reload a web page using Ctrl-R (not sure what happens if you use F5 to reload) the URL gets transmitted to msn and Alexa. This could be a problem if the current webpage contains strings such as usernames and passwords (even in encrypted form). The original advisory from secunia gives more details and a good alternative write up which involves editing related.htm can be found at imilly.com