Better Safe Than Sorry

IE7 beta released + weird behaviour

The beta version of Microsofts Internet Explorer 7 is available for download. Please note that as a beta release this experimental software could cause untold havoc on your PC so unless you are OK with that wait until the first real version is released. I have done so and am impressed by the anti-phishing tool and with the inclusion of the ever popular 'Spoofstick'. Along with tabbed browsing and a sort-of decent RSS feed detector this browser will at least help to protect the hundreds of thousands of folks who are as yet clueless to the fact that IE6 is a security hole that you will eventually fall into!

One strange bit of action I am unhappy with is the occasional behind the scenes execution of a scheduled task called "System_Feed_Sync_Scheduler.job" which is I assume the RSS feed checking for updates except I don't have IE7 running when it happens!

If you check your %Windir%tasks\ directory you will see two new jobs:

1. System_Feed_Rescheduler
2. System_Feed_Sync_Scheduler

Both jobs accesses "rundll32.exe" and "msfeeds.dll" which appears to be how Bill updates yer feeds.

I am no expert but it seems registering new scheduled events with privileges could be a problem?