Nightly Tech Reading-Unpatched IE Flaw - tech
(hx) 03:49 AM CET - Nov,30 2005
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SECURITY...
- Unpatched IE Flaw Extremely Critical - Instead of being just
critical,
Secunia says that the unpatched hole is now 'extremely critical' which
means that Microsoft were extremely stupid to sit on it for six months.
- Code exploits Windows flaw in image file handling -
The exploit code takes advantage of a flaw in the way Windows handles
certain graphics files. Microsoft provided a patch in October with security
bulletin MS05-053 and warned that the vulnerability could create an opening
for spyware and Trojan horse attacks
- Sony CD spyware installs and can run permanently, even if you click
"Decline" - Previously, Princeton researchers revealed that the
MediaMax software installed itself even if you declined the EULA (the pop-up
license agreement). However, the researchers concluded that if you declined
the EULA, the software was only active until you restarted Windows. Now
Princeton's Alex Halderman reports that if you insert another
MediaMax-infected CD (or the same CD again) and decline the EULA a second
time,
the software can activate itself permanently.
- MSN Messenger Authentication DoS - Any person can try to brute
force a victim's MSN messenger password, until MSN temporarily suspends the
account. While the account is temporarily suspended, not even the real owner
of the MSN Messenger Passport account can login (even if the correct password
is used).
- Hard drives ship with worm - Japanese storage vendor IO Data has
dropped a
bit of a clanger by shipping a batch of external hard drives complete with
a Windows worm.
CRIME/LAW...
OFF-TOPIC
- DRM boycotts hurt Sony's music sales - musicians frustrated -
Overnight, Get Right with the Man dropped to No. 1,392 on Amazon's music
rankings. By Nov. 22 -- after the news made headlines and Sony was deep into
damage control, pulling some 4.7 million copy-protected disks from the market
-- Get Right with the Man was even further from Amazon's Top 40, plummeting to
No. 25,802.
- The GMAIL Song - Yes folks there is now a
GMAIL song and Video.
TECHNOLOGY...
- 300,000 Xbox 360s go to Europe - According to Spiegel Online,
this
Friday will mark the arrival of 300,000 Xbox 360s in stores across Europe.
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Farstone VirtualDrive 10 Pro claims to support Starforce 3 - Farstone
claims on their product description of
VirtualDrive 10 Pro to have beaten the Starforce 3 copy protection. The
software is a CD/DVD drive emulator and allows you to use images made from CD
or DVD discs on your hard disk but with the behaviour of a CD/DVD reading
capable device
- Nokia Makes Enterprise Play with 9300i Smartphone -
Looking to gain a stronger foothold in the enterprise, Nokia today took the
wraps off of its latest smartphone ,
the 9300i, essentially an update to the 9300 model, which did not come
with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity.
HARDWARE...
GUIDES...
SOFTWARE...
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PHP 5.1.1 Final - The PHP Development Team has released
PHP 5.1.1.
This is a regression correction release aimed at addressing several issues
introduced by PHP 5.1.0.
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UNOFFICIAL Windows98 SE Service Pack 2.1 -
It contains all Windows98 SE updates from Windows Update site and more.
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Mozilla takes wraps off Firefox 1.5 -
Firefox 1.5,
available free via download, is the browser's first major update since
creator the Mozilla Foundation introduced it about a year ago. New in the 1.5
version are more sophisticated security and performance features. In addition
to a more effective pop-up blocker, the updated browser is designed to ease
security updates.
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FastStone Image Viewer 2.29 -
FastStone Image Viewer (download)
is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a
nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison,
red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments.
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K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.44 -
K-Lite
Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for
Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing)
audio and video.
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VLC Player 0.8.4 -
VLC (a.k.a. VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for
various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...)
as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as
a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth
network.
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Media Player Classic 6.4.8.7 -
Media Player Classic (download)
is similar to windows media player 6.4 but with features pertained to
minimalist advanced users. It also supports DirectX 9 and VFW drivers for
capture. It supports viewing through ActiveX controls of Real and QuickTime
files.
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Daemon Tools 4.00 X64 -
Daemon Tools 4 X64 (download)
has been released. It contains only small bugfixes, apart from that, the
release notes from V4 32bit are valid here, too.
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AnyDVD 5.6.1.1 -
AnyDVD program
is a driver, which unprotects DVD movies automatically in the background.
AnyDVD can be used to remove the various copy protections on DVDs and even
audio or game CDs. This new version Adds detection and removal of a new
type of protection "MacroVision RipGuard" as found on "Madagascar WideScreen"
R1 (US) or "Vet Hard" R2 (Netherlands) to the option to remove "Protection
based on unreadable Sectors" Note: RipGuard could be copied together with elby
CloneDVD2 since AnyDVD version 5.4.1.1, but this new version supports drag and
drop of all files from DVD to harddisk as well.
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Unstoppable Copier v2.0 -
Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files
from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give
errors when reading data.
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Far Cry Benchmark v1.4.2 -
Far Cry Benchmark
v1.4.2 adds support for the latest v1.33 patch, instant save feature, etc
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Half-Life 2 Benchmark v1.6 -
Half-Life 2
Benchmark v1.6 adds Lost Coast support, HD WideScreen resolutions
1280×768, 1920×1080, 1920×1200, HDR support, etc.
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Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Benchmark v1.1 -
Splinter Cell
Chaos Theory Benchmark v1.1 adds support for 1.5 patch, Pixel Shader 2.0
support, etc.
Intel Video Drivers 14.17 -
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