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This malicious program is a trojan downloader, which usually exploits various security holes for infecting the target system with different parasites. This technique is always a potent threat for the computer, that’s why it’s strongly advisable to get rid of this pest as soon as possible.

I've been wrestling with this for a little while now and wanted to try and get down some thoughts so at least I can refer to them in future. Others will hopefully find them useful as well. I'm not going to pre-amble with all the reasons for why we've had to do this in IE8 - there are plenty of other places to go for that background.

Does the secret of Microsoft’s domination of the web browser market lie in its use of Internet Explorer’s user agent string? And so Microsoft made their own web browser, which they called Internet Explorer, hoping for it to be a “Netscape Killer”. And Internet Explorer supported frames, and yet was not Mozilla, and so was not given frames.

With the advent Google Chrome there has been a lot of media coverage regarding the browser’s uptake and how it will compete with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. This is where the User Agent becomes most valuable. It can be used in analytics software to determine the browser share and consequently aid the development of the website.

Or how we got from "NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)" to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13"

This has been posted many times by many people and I think I’ve done it before but this time I did it better. The experts-exchange site - you have a question, a web search shows the probable answer and you have to sign up to see it. Got an ipod touch problem and want to read the forums at http://www.ipodtouchfans.com and you need to register to see the answer.

Internet indeed offer wide selection or possibly unlimited information for us, it’s become the number one choices when digging for any resources. But despite all the advantages we’ve got, there are also many consequences that we must face and address properly.

In an ideal world, you would never need to make your browser pretend to be a different browser. In reality, a number of websites check for specific browsers such as Mozilla or Internet Explorer, or even specific versions of those browsers.

In an ideal world, you would never need to make your browser pretend to be a different browser. In reality, a number of websites check for specific browsers such as Mozilla or Internet Explorer, or even specific versions of those browsers.

Maybe you are asking: What we need the User Agent for iPhone? In fact you don’t need it a lot if you have an iPhone, if not I’m sure that you need. For example there are a lot of service that you can access ONLY from an iPhone. Another good point that I started writing this post is reading for free around 20 different magazines (for free and legally).