Perhaps you've heard about Microsoft's WIndows Live new "Family Safety" software, which you can install on your Windows computer, so that your children can safely surf the web without fear of exposure to material that is not family friendly - or 'family safe'. Apparently in Microsoft's view this includes competitor Google, although oddly it does not include their own similar search engine, Live.com.
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Articles on WindowsPerhaps you've heard about Microsoft's WIndows Live new "Family Safety" software, which you can install on your Windows computer, so that your children can safely surf the web without fear of exposure to material that is not family friendly - or 'family safe'. Apparently in Microsoft's view this includes competitor Google, although oddly it does not include their own similar search engine, Live.com. The Conficker worm or Conficker virus (also known as Downadup or W32/Downadup), which has been in the news a lot lately, is currently estimated to have infected more than 9 million Windows computers the world over, and continues to spread at an alarming rate. With a $250,000 bounty on its head offered by Microsoft, and set to activate on April 1st, nobody yet knows what the millions of PCs infected by the Conficker worm will be ordered to do, but it's a sure bet that if and when it happens, it will be nasty. Fortunately there are ways to combat it and even a free Conficker removal tool. Microsoft has gone outside their usual patch release schedule and has released an emergency patch which everyone running affected versions of Windows is urged to get and install immediately. If you get an email, supposedly from Microsoft, which says "Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows", ignore it, delete it, and whatever you do, don't install the "patch" which comes with it, which is, of course, really a trojan program just waiting to wreak havoc on your computer. For any number of reasons, you may want to know how to delete Internet history from your computer. Whatever the reason, here is how to delete the Internet history from your computer if you are using Internet Explorer, Safari, IE7, or Firefox, and also how to clear your search history from Google Toolbar and even Google itself. In a new twist, web spammers are using images of a stripper named Melissa to dupe naive Windows users into helping them break CAPTCHAs - those "enter this text" images that websites rely on to keep spammers from posting spam on their site. Dubbed the CAPTCHA.a or Captchar.a virus, an infected Windows computer will display a picture of Melissa, who promises to remove an article of clothing for each "puzzle" that the user solves. Using your cell phone as a modem is perhaps the most overlooked of all Internet connection options. But a mobile phone Internet connection, whether as a tethered modem or, using bluetooth, a wireless cell phone Internet connection, is easy to set up, and with a laptop and cellphone you can check email and surf the web from anywhere, any time! Microsoft this week issued seven "critical" Microsoft Windows updates and patches, including an Internet Explorer update, and they want to make sure that you update your Windows! Because each of the seven updates and patches are rated as "critical", it really is advised that if you are running a computer with Windows, you pay immediate attention to these. If you run into the error "This device cannot start. Code 10" (often followed by a driver identifier, for example "This device cannot start. Code 10 in audio driver"), here is what it means. Millions of PCs that were sold as being "Windows Vista Capable" aren't, according to a lawsuit filed this week against Microsoft. The Windows Vista lawsuit, on behalf of an as yet undetermined number of consumers who purchased PCs in the past year with the expectation that they would be able to run all of the Windows Vista features, alleges that Microsoft knowningly and intentionally mislead consumers by allowing PC manufacturers to label PCs on the market as "Windows Vista Capable" when that meant only that the PC hardware would be able to run Vista Basic, and would not be able to run all the features that everyone is anticipating from Vista. Wondering why your address bar (the URL bar - where you type the web address you want to visit) has turned green? Why you're looking at a pop-up that says "Website Identification - VeriSign has identified this site as:" and "Should I trust this site?"? The Superbowl Trojan, as some are calling it, has been implanted on dozens of Super Bowl related websites, and is installing itself on any Windows computer that happens to visit any of the Super Bowl sites without adequate protection. The Super Bowl Trojan allows the hacker to take full control over any of these infected Windows PCs by connecting the machine to dv521.com, downloading the W1C.exe file, and installing the Wow-PK Trojan. Early adopters who have rushed out to grab their copy of Windows Vista have found that it has broken iTunes. As a result, Apple has suggested that people hold off upgrading to Vista "for a few weeks", at which time a new version of iTunes is expected to be released. They are also offering an iTunes Repair Tool for Vista, for those who have already made the switch. Consumer Reports has released their recommendations for the best anti spam software, the best anti spyware remover, and the best anti virus software. Microsoft has issued alerts and updates this week for both Windows Media Player and Outlook Express, explaining that both are open to serious attack, which could render a user's computer under the control from someone out on the Internet. The Outlook Express update affects Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 and 6, and the Windows Media Player issue affects both Windows Media Format Series Runtime, and Windows Media Player 6.4 (and even affects people running later versions of Windows Media Player such as Windows Media Player 11). Microsoft has advised that they are working on investigating a vulnerability in Word for Windows and Mac which allows attackers to gain access to a user's home computer. All of the following version of Word are at risk: Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac, as well as Microsoft Works 2004, 2005, and 2006. If you are running Windows, and are connected to the Internet, chances are you have started receiving messages from your Windows system telling you that IE7 - Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 - is ready for you to download and install, to upgrade whatever version of IE you are currently using. So, should you download and install IE7? There have already been many people who have regretted installing IE7. A number of video iPods have shipped with the Windows RavMonE virus, says Apple. The iPod virus, which shows as RavMonE.exe was discovered in a small number of video iPods shipped after Septemer 12th. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through its United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has warned all Americans running Windows to make haste to apply the MS06-040 patch which was issued by Microsoft this week. The MS06-040 patch corrects a flaw which makes computers running Windows particularly vulnerable. Ginwui.a (also Oscor-B, W32/Ginwui.A.dr, Backdoor.Ginwui, and W32/Ginwui.A) takes advantage of a security hole in Microsoft Word, allowing attackers to infiltrate your computer through email. The Microsoft patches for May, 2006 are out, including two that affect Windows XP, and one that affects Exchange. Microsoft has just released the pre-release beta version of Windows Explorer 7 (IE7), and would like you to help them test it! No more support for some versions of Microsoft Windows. Microsoft has announced that they are going to cease providing support for Microsoft Windows ME, Windows 98, and Windows 98SE, effective in less than 90 days. Microsoft this week, on what has become known as "Patch Tuesday" (the second Tuesday of every month), has issued seven security updates for the Windows operating system, classifying two of them as critical updates. Black Worm Day is fast upon us. This Friday, February 3rd, is being called "BlackWorm Day" because that is when the Mywife worm or Kama Sutra worm, also known as Blackmal.E, Nyxem.E, Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi, W32.Blackmal.E@mm worm, or W32/Nyxem-D, and now being dubbed just "The Black Worm", is set to delete files on at least a half-million PCs. The new Nyxem-D worm making the rounds has been dubbed the "Kama Sutra worm", because it arrives in an email offering graphic sex images and videos. Also called Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi, W32.Blackmal.E@mm worm, or W32/Nyxem-D, the email has such enticing subjects as "Kama Sutra pics!", "Hot Movies", "give me a kiss", Miss Lebanon 2006", "Part 1 of 6 Video clip", "The Best Videoclip Ever", "Arab sex DSC-00465.jpg", "Fw: SeX.mpg", "Fwd: Crazy illegal Sex!", and "School girl fantasies gone bad." Rumours of an Intel based Mac have been flying for months. Now the "Mactel" MacBook Pro (nee PowerBook) and iMac are here, and, somebody has to say it: So what? Why should we care about Mactel? Do we really care if we have Intel inside, even if "For years it's been trapped inside ordinary PCs. Doomed to performing dull little tasks"? The recently discovered Windows Metafile (WMF stands for "Windows Meta File") vulnerability gave rise to not just one 0-day exploit, but several exploits. Also known as a "zero-day exploit", a 0day exploit is an exploit which is already available on the same day, or even before, the vulnerability itself is announced. Auction giant eBay has taken a stand against the thousands of auctions involving pirated copies of Microsoft software which regularly appear on its pages. Microsoft this week issued a critical and cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (IE). They recommend that you apply the security update immediately, and so do I. Spybot Search Destroy for Windows XP is a free anti-spyware program for Windows XP (and other Windows versions) which comes very highly recommended. The 0x800a0007 Windows update error has pinched a lot of people. Here's what causes it, and what to do about it. iTunes Video, also known as iTunes 6, offers videos and television shows for downloading and playing on your PC or Mac, as well as on your snazzy new video iPod. Microsoft Windows Updates for this month include three that are deemed critical by Microsoft itself, along with four that they say are "important", and two which are moderate. Microsoft Client Protection is a new security product from Microsoft aimed specifically at IT professionals dealing with enterprise networks. An Internet Explorer download should be a relatively straight-forward matter, and it is, if you know where and how to do it. Internet Explorer, and specifically improperly patched versions of Internet Explorer, are being implicated as the weak link which allows extortionists to lock files on your hard drive and demand $200 to unlock them. If you get an anonymous online postcard in your email, don't follow the link! It's really Dloader-UT and Dumaro-S come a'knockin'. The BagleDI-U trojan is showing up in a lot of places this week. Being called Bagle.cd or Bagle.da, and hidden in an attached file called either "price_new.zip", "price2.zip" or "09_price.zip", it's turning up all over the place. Mepe.A is an instant messaging worm which says "te mandaron un recado conmigo" (I've been asked to give you a message), but which really gives you an infection instead. BWT Industry Technology Service d/b/a Computer Max, Data Day USA, Winvtech Solutions a/k/a Winvision Computers and Winvision Technology,Global Computing, Ion Technologies, Compustar, and Chips & Techs have all been sued today by Microsoft for software piracy. Says Microsoft, "Consumer input is key to understanding sources of illegal activity." Is Microsoft about to buy AOL? Or at least a stake in Time Warner's AOL? That's what the rumours are, and nobody is denying them. W32.Sinnaka.a is the hook which phishers are using to scare people into buying Spy Trooper, World AntiSpy, PS Guard and Raze Spyware, some of which are merely repackaged versions of other rogue spyware programs, such as SpyDemolisher, SpySheriff, and SpywareNo. They are doing it with fake Windows Security Center sites and bogus W32.Sinnaka.a virus alerts. Don't let it fool you. Microsoft to Google: "We can settle this lawsuit tomorrow if Google will agree to take today's preliminary injunction, keep every word without a single change, and enter it as a permanent injunction..." Microsoft Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of each month, and the day when, traditionally, Microsoft has released patches and other security updates for the Windows operating system. But while a patch was promised for this Patch Tuesday, none materialized. Here's why. Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the former Microsoft executive who left MSFT to join Google, and over which Microsoft sued Google, may start his job at Google pending the outcome of the trial, the Court says A Firefox flaw which allowed for remote code execution was publicly disclosed yesterday. Today Mozilla, who distributes the Firefox software, released a patch for the Firefox flaw. FEMA has put up a barrier to Hurricane Katrina survivors attempting to apply for assistance from FEMA. If they don't use IE 6.0 or higher, with Javascript enabled, they can't apply for FEMA aid online. Tsk tsk, FEMA. Phishers are thwarted and games are enjoyed with new anti-phishing and game add-ins, each offered free by Microsoft for their MSN search toolbar. Free download available at the MSN website. William Genovese Jr. goes by the code name "illwill" or "xillwillx", and admits to trying to sell stolen Microsoft Windows source code. But he wants you to know that he meant no illwill. An update for Outlook 2003's junk email filter promises to make the junk email filter even more effective. And it's free! Adobe is warning that a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader could lead to someone creating a "malicious PDF" file, and when the unsuspecting user opens the PDF file with a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat, the software could ... Microsoft has announced that they have just updated their Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) to detect and remove the Zotob worm which brought down computer systems across the country this week. The Zotob worm has also been referred to in news reports ... The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT) is reporting a newly discovered flaw in Internet Explorer (IE), and related to the Microsoft Msdds.dll library file. In fact, it's so new, that there isn't even a patch for it at the time of ... Microsoft has today released a statement regarding the Zotob worm (also reported as Botzor, Botzor.exe, and, incorrectly, as Zobot and rbot.ebq or rbot.cbq), which crashed computer systems across the nation yesterday. The Zotob worm, which takes advantage of a flaw in the Windows Plug ... Worm-rbot.cbq, rbot.ebq, Win.32.rbot.ebq, Zotob, Botzor.exe, or Zobot - whatever you call it, and whichever it is, it's causing a whole lot of trouble across the United States. [Breaking News! Tuesday, August 16th: Zotob May Be Responsible for Computer Crashes Across the U.S. Read Here] Today's Windows worm, brought to you by the letters Plug and Play, is the worm Zotob. Zotob attacks a flaw in the Windows ... Sunbelt Software, who last weekend discovered the CoolWebSearch trojan keylogging software which is right now stealing bank account, username, and password information from thousands of Windows users, has just released a free tool to detect and remove the keylogger, it has announced. "This is ... Ever dutiful, Microsoft today released its monthly security updates for Windows for August. There are six of them today, ranging from "moderate" to "important" to "critical", and affecting IE, Microsoft telephony, and RDP, among others, and allowing everything from spoofing to DOSing ... The implications are staggering. Internet security software company Sunbelt Software was investigating CoolWebSearch, a spyware package, when they noticed that stowing away in the CoolWebSearch download were two trojans, a spam zombie engine, and a keystroke logging program. It was the ... Microsoft's new operating system, Vista, was barely out in beta when security company F-Secure advised that an Austrian going by the nickname of "Second Part to Hell" had already written a Vista virus. F-Secure has dubbed the new virus "Danom". The ... Both ZDNet and IIS Resources are reporting a newly discovered "worm hole" in Windows 2000, one for which they say there is no work-around. According to the reports, the Windows security company eEye discovered the flaw this week, indicating that the flaw ... In an at least temporary victory for Redmond giant Microsoft, in a lawsuit which defending Mountain View giant Google is calling "a charade", a Washington state trial court has ordered ex Microsoft employee Kai-Fu Lee to refrain from starting his new job at ... Along with the limited beta release of Microsoft's new Windows Vista came a beta version of IE7 (Internet Explorer 7). Almost immediately, Vista and IE7 users began reporting that their Yahoo! and Google toolbars had..vanished, while other less, um, competitive toolbars (pop-up ... Microsoft came out this week with a statement in strong support of DR-CAFTA (Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement). Here is the statement which came to Aunty's attention: WASHINGTON, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today's passage of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) in the ... If you have a High Definition audio device in your Win XP x64 or Windows 2003 computer, then you'll want to take a look at this. Microsoft has today released an update for Windows XP x64 and Windows Server 2003 to correct ... Netscape has this week released Netscape version 8.0.3.1, which fixes four security holes which Netscape calls "critical". Two of these critical security flaws have already been documented, while two others have not, but are nonetheless addressed with 8.0.3.1. The two security flaws which ... Proving that your copy of the Windows operating software is legitimate (and not pirated) in order to get updates became mandatory today with the launch of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) 1.0. Previous to now participation in WGA had been voluntary. ... The Kirvo Trojan visits you via Instant Messenger, blazing a trail so that Spybot can then install itself on your system. And once you have a Spybot infestation, all bets are off. Yahoo will be announcing on Monday that it has purchased Arlo Rose's Konfabulator for an undisclosed amount of money. Yahoo will also be announcing that it will drop the price for Konfabulator from the current $19.99 to zero. That's right. Zippo. ... A Microsoft security advisory issued over the weekend says that a vulnerability in Windows RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) has been discovered which makes systems running Windows XP, Windows 2K, and Server 2003 susceptabile to DOS (denial of service) attacks. Says the advisory, "Our initial ... Is it a case of sour grapes, or good business? Microsoft this week has sued Google. Not over technology or copyright. Nope. Over poaching one of their top executives, Executive Vice President Kai-Fu Lee. It's no secret that Microsoft has ... A new worm has hit the streets, and it's a double-edged worm. The Lebreat worm, which is mailing itself around calling itself "Breatle AntiVirus" is both a network worm and a mass-email worm. It's two, two, two worms in one. According to ... Well, you can't say that it wasn't expected. Sure enough, after Tuesday's release by Microsoft of its July Security Updates, along came the fake "Microsoft Security Update" that you were warned about, the very next day. Identifying itself, falsely of course, ... The Mozilla Foundation has just released their Firefox 1.0.5 security update for Firefox, coincidentally at the same time as Microsoft released their own monthly security patches for Windows. Firefox 1.0.5 also upgrades and improves the browser's stability itself, but the most important aspect ... Microsoft has released their security bulletins for Windows, for July 2005, and there are only three of them! But before we go into them, let Aunty warn you again, beware of fake Microsoft security bulletins, which will almost assuredly follow today's actual ... Have you ever wondered who is watching you when you are on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)? Who is reading your profile, and checking you out? Well, wonder no more, because Justin Nolan, the body behind the relatively new ConnectedMobiles.com, has written Aimtrac, just ... Microsoft has confirmed this week that there is a newly discovered security flaw in Windows Internet Explorer (IE). Says the Microsoft website: "Microsoft is investigating a new public report of a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer. We have not been made aware of any ... Microsoft has announced the release of their updated Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), version 2.0. For those of you not familiar with this nifty piece of free software, it essentially scans your computer for security risks, including poor or sloppy configuration, security ... The conspiracy theorists are out in force, this time accusing Microsoft's MSN of intentionally disabling the right click function in FireFox, while not doing the same for Internet Explorer (IE). Now,mind you, just because Microsoft engenders its share of conspiracy theorists doesn't ... A report released this week by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that when it comes to Internet searching, and turning up adult content, MSN is better at blocking such results than either Google or Yahoo. Whether this is a bug or a ... The security flaw in Outlook Express revealed by Microsoft in their June Security Bulletin, and covered by Aunty here, has taken on a new urgency as certain websites have begun sharing samples of the code required to take advantage of the security flaw. While ... Microsoft has just announced that they are now requiring that email sent to Hotmail accounts must use Microsoft Sender I.D. or the email will be marked with a big yellow box and put in the junk folder or maybe even deleted. That ... REDMOND, Wash. — June 15, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the filing of four lawsuits against companies in Virginia and California for alleged distribution of counterfeit and/or illicit software and software components. Allegedly illegal or questionable actions of four companies were brought to ... The newest AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) worm, discovered today, causes targetted AIM users to receive a message, ostensibly from a buddy, which says "LOL, LOOK AT HIM", and containing a link to a file called "picture.pif". This worm is considered to be ... The second Tuesday of each month heralds Microsoft's monthly Security Updates for Windows. This month's batch includes security updates for Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Telnet, and HTML Help, to name a few. The update for Outlook Express affects OE primarily when it is ... Much has been made of the recent announcement that Apple is going to start using Intel CPUs. For the most part people think that this is either pretty cool, or no big deal, depending on where you sit. Many people seem to think ... Online security company Secunia has said this week that versions of Firefox and Mozilla, as well as the lesser known Camino, are again at risk for a frame injection security flaw which has dogged Mozilla on and off for nearly seven years. The problem, ... A new email worm being carried in email purporting to contain pictures of a captured Osama Bin Laden has failed to elicit the likely intended response - releasing the worm and allowing it to spread. According to spokespersons at both F-Secure and McAfee, the ... Not content to just do its normal wormly dirty work, a new variation on the infamous Bagle worm, Win32.Glieder, brings with it two companion Trojans, Win32.Fantibag and Win32.Mitglieder (literally, in German, "with Glieder"). Said Chris Thomas, a security architect with Computer Associates, "We've seen ... AOL's previously announced Instant Messenger-based AIM Mail email system is now a reality. Windows users who upgrade to the new AIM version 5.9 will have access to the new web-mail service, which is one of the first of its kind to integrate instant messenger ... This is an update on the Gpic.aol worm which is borne by AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). This is the worm which spreads itself by sending the target (that's you) an instant message via AIM which says "damn this looks just like me ... A newly discovered worm dubbed "Gpic.aol" and being transported via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) arrives as an instant message along the lines of "damn this looks just like me lol" and proffering a link which claims to be a link to pictures.google.com However, as ... VoIP is the new VoIP! Spontania is Video4Skype! "What's that Aunty?" you ask. "Have you had too many add-shots in your Starbucks today?" Nope! Video over IP is the new "VoIP"! Where VoIP has always stood for Voice over IP (Internet ... "Sure, I could get a Mac, but the time I spend with my daughter removing spyware is very precious." A great line, already being attributed to Intel CEO Paul Otellini, but actually penned by Good Morning Silicon Valley's John Paczkowski on the ... For some reason Aunty has had a lot of searches this week asking how to get rid of Internet cookies. It's really quite easy, but to make it even easier, Aunty is going to cover it for you here. The vast majority of ... Microsoft is advising Windows users who use Internet Explorer to get Netscape 8 off their Windows machines. Well, duh. But, actually they have a good, technical reason for advising their customers to remove Microsoft's former browser nemesis from their computers: the two ... Just in time to make Memorial Day weekend really memorable, both AOL and Yahoo Instant Messengers are being targeted, the former by an Internet worm, the latter by a phishing scam. "hehe i found this funny movie", says your AOL AIM Instant Messenger ... Launch of New MSN Postmaster Web site and Enhancements to E-mail Authentication Aim to Help Customers and Service Providers Better Understand ... Surely as night follows day, fake Microsoft updates now follow Microsoft's genuine monthly security updates. The real Microsoft updates come out on the second Tuesday of each month. By the second Wednesday of each month, there are fake patches being spammed ... Microsoft is rolling out a new program, called "Windows OneCare". The idea is that one service will do it all - provide security, protection, take care of maintenance, and optimize performance. Of course, you need to be able to trust the ... With the introduction of its new AIM Mail service, Internet giant America Online (AOL) has jumped on the "free webmail with 2 gigabytes of storage" bandwagon, but with an added twist: the new service is tied in to your AOL Instant Messenger ... A new virus aimed (no pun intended) at AOL Instant Messenger Windows users has been discovered this week. It will appear to come from one of your buddies, with a message of "hey check this out!", along with a link to ... Newly discovered flaws in both Outlook and Internet Explorer (IE) were uncovered and announced over the weekend. The security holes are considered to be especially "high risk" in part because they require little to no user interaction in order for a ... A recent security update to Microsoft Windows, MS05-002 KB891711, is causing crashes for a lot of Windows 98 and Windows ME users, leading to issues with IE, blue screens of death and even, some are reporting, a black screen of death. The MS05-002 KB891711 ... If you have ever looked at any of your stored Windows passwords, you know that they are encrypted and look nothing like your actual password. That is because your system "hashes" the password, and the resulting gobbleygook is in fact known as ... A new type of attack on Internet Explorer has been discovered this week, and this attack works even if IE is closed! The way that it works is that a user visits an infected site, is given a pop-up window asking them ... A lot of people seem to be looking for information about AOL Coach lately. Usually, although not always, they are looking for the helper application called AOL Coach, although there is also "AOL Coaches", which is AOL's online self-help and life-improvement program. AOL ... Holy complete waiver of privacy, Batman! AOL's new terms of service for their AIM service includes that AIM users waive any right to privacy, and that the AIM user allows AOL to the right to reproduce and republish your chats anywhere, any ... Well, Wells Fargo has done it. Back in November we told you about the increase in ATM machines running on Windows (yes, we realize that "ATM machines" is redundant, but many people know them by that name). Now Wells Fargo has ... Mark Lucovsky may not be a household name in your household, but his name is well-known among Microsoft pundits and geeks. However soon his name will be associated with Google, and not just because "Lucovsky" turns up more than 13,000 hits in ... April 12th is the very last day. That's when the clock runs, and the deadline looms. And here you thought it was April 15th. Nope, it's the twelfth. Because we're not talking about the day your taxes are due. On ... Are you familiar with the term "luser"? According to the Wikipedia, the term "luser" refers to Internet slang for "a painfully annoying, stupid, or irritating computer user." While of course none of Aunty's dear readers fall into this category, there ... The Windows Genuine Advantage Program (WGA) is a way for the Microsoft bouncer to check your Windows' I.D. at the door. A couple of weeks ago, Aunty reported to you that Microsoft had announced a patch for their ActiveX security flaw. However, today the anti-virus experts at GeCad Net are reporting that the patch distributed by Microsoft does not fully fix the flaw (and try ... A newly discovered Internet work, dubbed "Bropia.A", is targetting Windows and MSN Messenger messaging clients. The worm does a host of nasty things, including sending a copy of itself to all of the messaging contacts found on the victim's computer, installing a Trojan horse ... A cryptographer at the Singapore-based Institute of Infocomm Research has determined that there are serious security flaws in Microsoft Word and Excel in terms of their encryption for password protection of documents. Hongjun Wu, who has written a paper on the subject, says ... Last week Aunty told you about Internet baddies who are loading spyware, adware, and viruses (oh my!) into media files, using a loophole in Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) process, and causing the nasties to be installed on the computers of unaware users ... For those of you who have never ventured beyond the world of Windows, you may not realize the number of websites which people such as I, who don't use Windows, encounter which are not only "optimized to work with Internet Explorer", but which ... Microsoft's spyware program is one of the first to use the new Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) process of determining whether your version of Windows is legitimate or pirated. Security and anti-virus company Sophos is reporting that there is a new worm out this week which targets Windows users (don't they all?) Dubbed "Cellery", due to the text which appears on its splash screen, the worm offers its victims genuine entertainment in the ... In addition to the critical fix for the Help flaw which implicated Active X, and which Aunty posted about here, Microsoft today announced two additional security patches for Windows users. The first one involves both a cursor and icon handling vulnerability, along with a ... Not a moment too soon, Microsoft has announced a fix for that pesky "help flaw" involving ActiveX which Aunty first reported on here and again here just yesterday. Making this flaw even more devestating than some others is the fact that it affects so ... Security company Secunia, Inc. has raised the security threat warning for recently revealed Internet Explorer 6 security flaws to "extremely critical", their highest threat level. This is the result of yet another "security" site publishing yet another set of instructions for how to exploit ... Consider it an act of contrition, largesse, or just good business sense, but Microsoft is making available its new anti-spyware software free to Windows users. Having acquired anti-spyware maker Giant Company last month, it was anticipated that Microsoft would enfold a spyware fighting product ... AuditMyPC.com is a website which offers a host of free services designed to help you to secure your PC. Using readily available diagnostic tools and your Internet connection, the AuditMyPC.com site will tell you exactly what security holes you have open, Windows patches which ... Microsoft has won a $7.4million judgement against a Tuscon, Arizona spammer. Glenn Hannifin, the 'proprietor' of U Save Depot, was accused by Microsoft of sending millions of pieces of spam hawking everything from software to leather jackets. The software offered included copies of ... It seems that online baddies are again using a flaw in the Windows help system to help themselves - to access to your computer system. As reported by Aunty last week, a flaw in the help system for certain releases of Windows, along ... January 8th, 2005, is the deadline for Windows users to file a claim against Microsoft under the settlement in the class-action lawsuit on behalf of several California plaintiffs against the software giant. The settlement, arising from a lawsuit in which it was claimed that ... Anti-virus leader Trend Micro has announced that they are offering a free virus and spam checker for mobile phones. With more and more people carrying an almost dizzying array of increasingly sophisticated "Smart Phones", many analysts see cell phones as the next frontier for ... Aunty had no idea that there was such a distinction to finding the last Windows security hole of the year! But that is the only thing which can explain this last minute rush to post newly discovered flaws in the eleventh hour ... Two new wide-spread and far-reaching security flaws have been identified in Windows. And not content to just identify the flaws, the Chinese "security" (and Aunty uses the term advisedly) firm, VenusTech, has also posted the code necessary to exploit the flaws. ... When Aunty reported on the five Windows security updates earlier this week, you didn't actually think that it would be the last update for the week, did you? Oh no. Say "hello" to bouncing baby update #6 for the week. This fine ... Cookies. Everyone has them. And everyone wants to know how to get rid of them. While for some browsers it's fairly obvious and straight-forward, for others it's not so much. So, without further ado, here is a list of how to ... The newest version of MyDoom does not even have a file attached to it, making it look even less suspect, and less worm- or virus-like. Instead, it exploits one of the more recently discovered holes in Internet Explorer, through which clicking on a URL ... As Aunty reported back in October, Microsoft reintroduced its roundly rejected Sender I.D. proposal, after, it says, reworking it a bit to meet some of the objections which did it in the first time. And true, to their credit, they did address ... Because Windows works so well, and is such a secure product, newer versions of the ATM will be run on Windows, instead of the standard OS/2. And, oh yes, they will be connected to the bank's IP network. There is a new chapter in the debacle which started with Microsoft's extending and embracing of SPF and its advocate, Meng Weng Wong, and which culiminated in the collapse of an empire (well, ok, of the IETF working group tasked with evaluating Sender ... Microsoft has announced that it will no longer be offering for free its service which allows users to connect to their Hotmail and MSN accounts using Outlook and Outlook Express. Citing exploitation by spammers, Microsoft will begin charging those who want to use the ... The newest of the sinsister worm types of viruses, Sasser, has attacked Windows-based computers around the world. Even more insidious than its earlier siblings, Sasser scans the Internet for computers with the Microsoft security flaw which allows it to do its dirty work, and ... |
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KingofthePaupers: Jct: There’s nothing wrong with small denomination California State IOUs if I or anyone else can pay their taxes with them. When Argentina’s government workers read Flexispy Review: @ Martin Curry - Unquestionably the Government have the ability to listen in on your Cell Phone through remote activation - so in theory it read Joe: Since you are dealing with politicians, it is really a combination of arrogance and stupidity. read Piewrre ML: And the answer is SO simple! I really query the adequacy of state legislators to do their jobs! Granted, it would required agreement read bigjohn756: Do we have to choose between arrogance or ignorance? How about plain stupidity? It takes no thinking ability to be congressman or to read MartinCurry: I have a guy who claims he is ex-cia tracking my family phones to find material to use against me and my loved ones. Can read andrew: Hi there lve receaved one of these emails and l got him or her tagging the line at the momment what steps can l take read
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