I have taken a screen shot of the Microsoft Knowledge Base where they now have their brilliant advice to people who use web browsers:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];833786

This is to "get around" the fact that they have currently withdrawn support for http-authentication using the standard "username:password@url" method, and because the current, unpatched version of Internet Explorer has a bug where some malicious being could type in a non-printing character like %01, and everything afterward will not show up in the address bar of the browser. For a demonstration, go here (the URL is http://www.puggryduckling.com/misc/mike/ie/index.html, if you're typing it in manually).

I thought that was one of the features of web browsers, that you could easily get from one source of information to the next without having to type in long, unintelligible strings of code... I guess I was wrong.