Evening Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:28 AM CET - Feb,23 2002
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- Three new MS security holes - two nasty - First up, the mildest of the
three. Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) may ignore IE security zone settings during a request for data from a Web
site, meaning that an attacker could request data from the user's local drive. Next, we
have a defective ISAPI filter in Commerce Server 2000 which can lead to a
root compromise. The so-called AuthFilter, which suports several types of authentication,
contains an unchecked buffer. Finally, and worst of all, we have a little problem with
VBscript in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 which could allow an attacker to read
files on a victim's local drive, or eavesdrop on his browsing session. The defect
essentially allows scripts in one domain to access the contents of another domain in a
frame, the MS bulletin explains.
- Gator Digital Wallet Allows Hacker Back Doors - Gator, a digital
wallet program installed on millions of computers, contains a security flaw that could enable malicious sites
to take control of a user's computer. According to security researchers, an ActiveX
plug-in installed with the Gator program can be hijacked by attackers and used to place
back-door software or other "malware" on the victim's computer.
- Sites Revealed Passwords For Thousands Of Ameritech Users
- Until earlier today, usernames, passwords and other sensitive information for tens
of thousands of SBC-Ameritech.net customers were available to
anyone with a Web browser and the proper Internet address, according to information
obtained by Newsbytes.
- Moving from MPEG-4 on to VP5? - Video-compression
provider On2
Technologies is taking aim at the MPEG-4 video streaming standard. It's releasing an
update of its own codec, known as VP5.
- Water gushed 'recently' on Mars - Huge
amounts of water - enough to cause catastrophic floods - gushed out of fissures onto
the surface of Mars relatively recently, scientists who analysed photographs of the red
planet said on Wednesday. The deluge washed the equivalent of one and a quarter times the
water found in Lake Erie onto the surface of the planet near its equator, carving out a
series of tear-shaped mesas, the team at the University of Arizona reported.
- Defragger Roundup - The major players in this arena, Diskeeper,
Norton's Speed Disk, O&O Defrag, and Perfect Disk are reviewed, giving
the speed benefits of using each defragger, Pro's and Cons of each program and if
possible a suitable screen shot.
- AMD-8000 Unveiled - AMD disclosed details of the AMD-8000 series of
chipsets, which in conjunction with AMD's next generation processor architecture --
codenamed "Hammer" -- is expected to provide a groundbreaking advancement to
dramatically improve the overall performance of future computing platforms.
- X-Box2 No NVIDIA?! - Y'know what the problem is? Nvidia charges
Microsoft just a little bit too much for its technology and Microsoft wants to lose
just that little bit less on each X-Box it sells. More. While Via reckons it could
scoop the opposition and get the graphics chipset and the CPU business, it has one major
competitor in the final running and that happens to be little Canadian company ATI.
- Modest performance gains seen for DDR333 adapters - The
transition to 333-MHz double-data-rate DRAM may rely more on good salesmanship than on the
system performance gains that result from the memory's higher bandwidth. Theoretically,
the 333-MHz chips offer a 30 percent increase in raw bandwidth over 266-MHz versions. But
in a real-world situation, the higher-frequency chips only add a
few percentage points to system performance, sources said.
- Weekly CPU Price List - Remember when I warned you last
week that SDR prices will be going up? Well they most certainly did, by up to $20 for a
256MB chip! Believe me when I say it's not going to stop there either. On the CPU front,
we are seeing a mixed bag this week, but things are looking good for the AthlonXP's, with
all but the 1500+
dropping by at least a few dollars.
- Building an Overclocked PC, cheap Part #2 - Overclocked Cafe has
posted part #2 of their Building an Overclocked PC, cheap article.
- Laser Cut Fan Grills - These days, modding is normal, as are
highly overclocked cpu's. Along with this fact people tend to add some fans and more fans
and more fans, but when you cut a freeking big hole in your case it looks ugly. So do
normal round fan grills. So, because normal fan grills really do not cut it,
Laser Cut fan grills came into being. Today we are going to look at Laser Cut fan grills
from Innovatek.de.
- Shuttle AK35GTR KT266A Mainboard Review - Shuttle introduced
another model after the successful AK31 v3.1. This time round, they threw in HightPoint
HPT372RAID on board which provides ATA-100 RAID. Although this board came to our labs just
2 weeks ago but was reviewed on other sites 2 months ago. We decided to still give it a
spin and see how it compares to the rest of the KT266As and the KT333s.
- eVGA e-GeForce4 MX440 Review - This card is based off of
nVidia's GeForce4 MX440 GPU clocking in at 270MHz Core & 400MHz Memory. They put it up
against a Gainward GeForce3 Ti200 in testing. The review also includes
a lengthy explanantion of the new features offered by the NV17. Did I mention they're
giving it away to one lucky winner too?
- GeForce4 Comparison - Korean site Dark Crow has posted a comparison of a slew of GeForce4 MX based cards from Garnet.
- Win2k Corporate Workstation Performance Guide - This
article deals with workstation performance in Windows 2000 Professional. Server issues
are only touched as they relate to the workstation. Servers are naturally assumed to
follow best practices. Such practices include separating servers by function. For
instance, Domain Controllers, File and Print Servers, and Application Servers should each
run on their own server.
- MagicTweak 1.83 - This unique
software makes it easy to tweak hundreds of hidden settings in Windows XP/2000/Me/98,
so there is no longer any need to dig through the registry looking for that specific
setting (from Start Menu,Desktop,IE skin,System Icon to System Security) that just doesn't
seem to be there. With the ability to cutomize almost any aspect of Windows, you can
become a Windows expert almost instantly! The latest release adds the function to optimize
the internet connection speed in Win 2000/XP.
- DVD2SVCD 1.0.7 Build 1 - DVD2SVCD is a completely automated frontend for converting DVD, PVA
and AVI files to SVCD.
- Audiotools v3.70 Interim 3 - Audiotools is a direct-to-disk recording tool with the facility to
automatically split a recording into tracks to the hard disk without having to use much
memory.
- Intel 830 Chipset Graphics Driver v.PV10.2.4 - Download version
for Win9x/WinME / Win2000/WinXP.
- Intel 810/815 Graphics Driver v6.6 - Download version for Win9x/WinME / Win2000/WinXP.
- SUMA's Detonators 27.30 W9x/ME - download
- Nvidia Detonators v16.30 WHQL - There is a new set of Detonator drivers avilable. This time 16.30 they may seem old
bit don't get fooled. The 2x.xx series is optimised for Directx8 while the 1x.xx series
are optimised for DirectX7 videocards and this is the latest batch for Dx7. Why the 16.30
drivers never have hit the web beats me. Anyway, they are 100% authentic NVIDIA Detonator
drivers.
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