Need to spoof IE7 and IE6 for my bank!

Jamie Furlong · Feb 6, 2006

Thoroughly enjoying the much-improved IE7 beta, except my bank doesn't
recognise it as an approved browser.
I've googled for a way of spoofing it, but no real answers.

All I want to do is set the agent to look like IE6. Thanks!

Viktor Krammer · Feb 6, 2006

Hello Jamie,

You can set the user agent string of IE7 to look like IE6.

Here is a registry patch you need to download and run to make this change.

http://www.fiddlertool.com/useragent.aspx
(scroll down to the end of the page)

Viktor

Jamie Furlong · Feb 6, 2006

Viktor Krammer said:
Hello Jamie,

You can set the user agent string of IE7 to look like IE6.

Here is a registry patch you need to download and run to make this change.

http://www.fiddlertool.com/useragent.aspx
(scroll down to the end of the page)

Thanks - that worked. Probably going to play havoc with Windows Update, now!

JoeM · Feb 6, 2006

You should contact your bank and tell them about the problem so they can fix
it.

Gordon · Feb 6, 2006

JoeM said:
You should contact your bank and tell them about the problem so they
can fix it.

Why? IE7 is *beta* - I wouldn't bank with a bank that allows such an
un-finished product to access account details!

siljaline · Feb 6, 2006

IE 7 B2P is supported by MVPs here;
From your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

On the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

*Not* here -

Silj

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Jamie Furlong · Feb 6, 2006

siljaline said:
IE 7 B2P is supported by MVPs here;
From your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
*Not* here -

Now, how would anyone know that?!? And who says that? And why isn't there an
IE7 beta group?

Gordon said:
Why? IE7 is *beta* - I wouldn't bank with a bank that allows such an
un-finished product to access account details!

Would it matter? The data channel is encrypted!

siljaline · Feb 6, 2006

Jamie Furlong said:
Now, how would anyone know that?!? And who says that? And why isn't there an IE7
beta group?

All you need to know is below;
<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx>

Silj

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