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Re: IE7 add-on


From: Dave Howe <David.Howe () ansgroup co uk>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:34:05 +0000

jason_jones98 () hotmail com wrote:
Log into your bank, open another tab within the window i.e. google.
Close the banking tab, hit Alt-X and the 'logged-in' banking window
re-opens. I have also attempted this on other applications and the
majority work. Can someone advise if M$ have provided us with a great
MITM plug-in tool?

Not really. The same effect can be seen if you hit Ctrl-H for a history list, and open the stored page link in the "current" tab. It depends on either a hash token being in the URL, or a session cookie still being current in the cookie-jar as you have not close the browser.

so, yet more evidence for why you should log out and close your browser properly after using internet banking and not mix-and-match tabs, but other than that, nothing spectacular.

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