If you have been experiencing Microsoft Vista problems – such as the infamous “nvlddmkm has stopped working” issue – you may need the Vista 940105 patch. While there’s been an outpouring of more than the usual amount of angst regarding Windows Vista problems lately, due to the incompatability of some Vista drivers, this isn’t a Vista vs XP issue, and in fact some problems with Vista are not Vista’s fault. In this particular case, applying the Vista 940105 patch should fix your problems. So instead of jumping on the “Vista sucks” bandwagon, try downloading the Vista 940105 patch.

Microsoft has announced this week a security hole in MS Word – well, actually it’s in the Jet Database engine, but that creates a vulnerability in MS Word, which attackers can exploit to gain remote access and control of your computer. Nearly all versions of Windows, including XP, 2000 (2K) and many Windows Server editions, are vulnerable. In fact the only versions of Windows not vulnerable to this attack are Vista, and Windows Server 2003 SP2.

According to a tip received by the Internet Patrol, the resident evil behind the throngs of social networking and other sites that are tricking people into logging into their AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail accounts, and scraping their address book, has a name, and that name is Sigma Visual Technologies. Sigma Visual Technologies provides software that allows sites to get their users to import and email all of their contacts in their address books. Put another way, it lets these sites scrape and spam your contacts. In your name!

Today was an eventful day for mobile handheld device owners. First, the RIM Blackberry network went down – again – leaving thousands of Blackberry users in the dark. Then, it was announced that Microsoft was buying Palo Alto-based Danger, the company behind the Danger Hiptop – more popularly known as the Tmobile Sidekick.

Microsoft’s sexy Santa Claws instant message buddy bot started spewing bad Santa porn to a couple of young girls who had sent a special letter to Santa bot. During the Santa chat session, the girls offered Santa Clause some pizza. But when told to “eat it”, the dirty Santa responded with “It’s fun to talk about oral sex, but I want to chat about something else… ” (Santas little helper, perhaps?) At this point the girls’ uncle stepped in and told the evil Santa that he was a dirty bastard, and that naughty Santa responded “I think you’re dirty bastard” (apparently he was also drunk Santa, or, at least, inarticulate Santa). Must be Santa bot had a flaw, for never before in Santa Claus history has he been known to be a perv!

The mega popular Facebook site has joined the ranks of social networking sites that trick you into providing your password so that they can steal your AOL , Yahoo, MSN, or other address book, and spam all of your contacts. Only this time it’s with a twist – they are actually spamming your AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) contacts in your Buddy List! The spam starts out like this: “According to his Facebook status, Friend’s Name (their username) is now “Friend’s Nickname”. Friend invites you to join Facebook and keep up with what he and your other friends are doing.” What we want to know is WHY are AOL, Yahoo, and MSN continuing to let this go on?

Microsoft has announced a new software product and platform to allow people to store their electronic medical records online and share them with health care providers and technologists, insurance providers, and medical device providers. Dubbed Microsoft Health Vault, Microsoft says that it will allow people to “collect, store, and share health information.” But should you?

If you’re looking for free online music downloads – legal free music downloads and free music videos downloads – then have we got news for you! Spiral Frog is a new free legal music downloads service offering free music downloads! That’s right, absolutely free music downloads! Rather than charge for its music downloads it is instead advertising supported – so you get music downloads free while Spiral Frog gets to show you ads. The twist is that these totally free music downloads will not play on iPods or Zunes. It also won’t work with any Apple computer. So you can get all your music downloads free, but they won’t work with your Mac, iPod or Zune. That is because Spiral Frog relies on the Microsoft Digital Rights Management (DRM) system its free music downloads.

When it comes to computer safety and Internet security issues, even the best Internet security and computer Internet security software may be no match for the enemy within. Because it turns out that Microsoft announces an average of two new threats every week to your Microsoft Windows computer safety! And no, automatic Microsoft Windows updates and having Windows service pack 2 isn’t going to protect you.

For the third time in as many months, Hotmail is down, and users across the country cannot get to the Hotmail servers to read and retrieve their email. Users across the world are flocking to our site, searching for information and help with queries such as “hotmail down”, “hotmail down?”, “hotmail is down”, “is hotmail down”, “is hotmail down?”, “hotmail servers down”, “hotmail down today”, “hotmail servers”, and “hotmail outage”. If this has affected you, then it probably really is time to switch to Gmail or Yahoo.

If you must have free email, we strongly recommend switching from Hotmail to another free email service provider such as Yahoo, AOL, or Gmail. We personally recommend either Yahoo or AOL.

If you use MSN Messenger or email, chances are that at some point you will find yourself using, or wanting, emoticons for MSN. Emoticons are emotional graphics – visual ways to express the way you feel when words alone just aren’t enough. Of course, you probably knew that. But what you may not have known is just how many emoticons for MSN there are (such as alien, 3d, and even erotic adult emoticons!) – or where to get them. Or how to create or make your own emoticons for MSN!

Breaking News: Hotmail experienced what appeared to be a nationwide outage today – perhaps worldwide – with Internet Patrol users reporting being unable to access their Hotmail accounts all across the United States, from Los Angeles to New York, from Oregon to Texas, from DC to Chicago to South Carolina and Wisconsin.

Microsoft has filed a patent to allow them to scrape your hard drive, searching through the contents of your files, to serve you targeted advertising that they just know you’ll want to see because it will be based on the contents of those files. It’s kind of like having Bill Gates reading your computer over your shoulder and saying “Ooh, I have just the thing for you!”

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.