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Meet the Peeping Tom worm
A worm that has the capability to using webcams to spy on users is circulating across the Net...Read More
posted 01:07 [/computers/microsoft]
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Microsoft Faces Angry IE Users' Questions
In a lively online discussion Thursday, Microsoft engineers faced off with end users who lobbed irate questions, comments and a few tirades about its Internet Explorer browser.
More than any topic, security reigned as the most pervasive theme during the online discussion, including when end users could see the next patch for vulnerabilities in IE....Read More at internetnews.com
posted 18:45 [/computers/microsoft]
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Internet Explorer Is Too Dangerous to Keep Using
Because Internet Explorer, like Outlook, has finally become, to my mind, a permanent security hole that masquerades as a useful application. Strong words? Have you really thought about this latest exploit? It could hit every Internet Explorer (IE) browser that merely visited any page served by an infected Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server). No anti-virus program would stop it, no firewall would slow it down and no shipping IE security patch would even notice it. Visit the page, get the infection. It was that simple....Read More at EWeek
posted 07:28 [/computers/microsoft]
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Microsoft Patch Leaves Holes Open
Dangerous vulnerability still exists in IE, security expert warns....Read More at PCWorld
posted 07:16 [/computers/microsoft]
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IE Users, Proceed with Caution--If at All
Is your enterprise safe running Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser? In many cases, no, and it's time that organizations started taking security seriously enough to consider a switch....Read More at Yahoo News
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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
posted 18:37 [/computers/microsoft]
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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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From the I can't believe they gave them a patent department
Method and system for clustering and grouping taskbar buttons
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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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'Gaping hole' lets hackers into Windows or more of the same
Computer users have been warned to avoid using Internet Explorer until a gaping hole in the browser's security is fixed by Microsoft....Read More at thisislondon.com
posted 15:04 [/computers/microsoft]
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Researchers warn of infectious Web sites
The researchers believe that online organized crime groups are breaking into Web servers and surreptitiously inserting code that takes advantage of two flaws in Internet Explorer that Microsoft has not yet fixed. Those flaws allow the Web server to install a program that takes control of the user's computer...Read More at ZDNet.com
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