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Keystroke loggers must send Microsoft back to firewall drawing board
When was the last time you were scared to death by headlines about some malware that your system wasn't yet protected against, or worse, for which no reasonable defense existed?...Read More at ZDNet
posted 19:13 [/computers/microsoft]
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Microsoft released on Friday a work-around for an Internet Explorer vulnerability that has left Windows users open to attacks for almost nine months.
The flaw, in an ActiveX scripting component, gained notoriety last month when it became the mechanism used by a network of compromised Web sites to install a malicious program on victims' computers. Microsoft has decided to plug the hole by turning off the ability for the ActiveX component to write to the operating system. The software giant published the work-around on its Web site and directed customers to use its Windows update service to download the patch....Read More at ZDNet
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To my neighbors in the north
Happy Canada Day
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U.S. Steers Consumers Away From IE (it's about time)
The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer....Read More at Yahoo news
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Customizing GNOME
Red Hat and Sun have showed us that GNOME can be both nice to look at and fun to use. However, GNOME is horribly bland in its natural state, and fixing it so that it's more palatable seems like such a daunting task. But what if you could do your own Bluecurve-like customizations and turn a boring and annoying default GNOME installation into a thing of beauty and productivity in about 20 minutes?...Read More at NewsForge.com
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A parent's guide to Linux Web filtering
Having converted quite a few people to the world of GNU/Linux, I am often asked by parents, "Can I set up parental Web filters for my children using Linux?" The answer is yes, and here's how....Read More at NewsForge.com
posted 01:14 [/computers/linux/docs]
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From the I can't believe they gave them a patent department
Method and system for clustering and grouping taskbar buttons
Abstract
A method and system are provided for organizing, displaying, and accessing representations of one or more running tasks on a graphical user interface in a computer system. The system organizes like application files and clusters the corresponding taskbar buttons and, upon reaching a threshold limit, creates and displays a group button that contains the like application files and removes the like taskbar buttons from the taskbar. Further, upon reaching a second threshold limit, the system ungroups the application taskbar buttons, displays them on the taskbar and removes the group button from the taskbar. ....Read More
posted 01:12 [/computers/microsoft]
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