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(hx) 01:01 AM CET - Jan,28 2002
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- RealNetworks Reveals Exploit on RealPlayer 8 - Morgan said the
Real Media file format contains a variety of strings in its header. By manipulating the
way a file is formatted, it is possible to overflow memory buffers which store these
strings. This could let an attacker run arbitrary code on a user's machine. "As it
turns out, RealPlayer blindly trusts the number in front of the string to indicate the
true length of the string, and doesn't check to see if this number is smaller than the
allocated buffer length," Morgan explained. "Thus, with certain strings, it is
very easy to cause RealPlayer to crash
consistently by making the two bytes in front of a string 0xFFFF."
- BIOS Guide and FAQ - AMD World has published a BIOS Guide and FAQ.
- AOpen CDRW 3248 announced - AOpen announced its CRW3248 CD-RW drive,
writing CD-R disc at 32X,CD-RW disc at 12X Speed, and reading CD disc at up to 48X speed.
AOpen CRW3248 drive uses Just Link, Just Speed technologies to prevent Buffer under run
error and disc writing errors.
- CPU Review Mania - AMD Athlon XP 1800+ cpu at Viper's
Lair, AMD Athlon XP 1900+ cpu at PC Stats,
AMD Duron 1.3 GHz cpu at Hexus.net, AMD Duron 1.3 GHz cpu at Tech Hard.
- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Beta 1 - MandrakeSoft S.A. has released the
first beta of Mandrake Linux 8.2 Download: CD1 / CD2.
- Helium2 v1.1 - Helium² is the
ultimate MP3 management system. Catalog your growing MP3 collection, create tags and
playlists, or use Helium²'s unique collection of tools and wizards to manage even the
largest MP3 collection. Helium² supports playlist formats as m3u, pls, bpl all with
extended information for import and/or export.
- StyleItXP v1.0 - It's a New Application (FREEWARE) Designed to Add Visual Styles Support to
Old Executables (for example mIRC). The Process Only Take a Second And It's Fully
Compatible With Any App.
- CDRWIN 3.8G & CDRWIN 4.0A Beta - New versions of CDRWIN
has been released, but I don't know what is changed.
- Geforce Tweak Utility 3.2t17 Beta - Johannes Tuemler has
just released version 3.2t17 Beta of his extremely popular GeForce
overclocker/tweaker.
- OCPad 0.5 RC5 - it calculates most needed values for
overclockers - Memory bandwidth, fillrate, memory speed by NS rating and it will have more
features in next releases. You will be able to calculate results of your overclocking and
understand speed of future pre-released hardware. Overclocker's Pad understand SDR, DDR
memory as well, as future QBM and even un-anounced DDR-III. And best of all - it's FREE!
- CPUCooL Version 7.0.10 - CPUCooL is a
program that monitors temperature, fan speed, and voltages for many motherboards. It works
with all chipsets from Intel, ALI, VIA, AMD, and SIS 5595 motherboards.
- VCool v1.8 Beta 6 - This utility will
cool your Athlon/Duron processor on Via KT133 or KX133(A) (VT8363, VT8361,
VT82C691/693A/694 or VT8371 +VT82C686x) chipsets during idle.
- VIA Audio Driver AC97 v1.60 WDM - This new version supports
Apollo Pro266(VT8633 + VT8233), Apollo KT266(VT8366 + VT8233), Apollo KT266A (KT266A +
VT8233C) and Apollo P4X266 (VT8753 + VT8233/8233C)/
- Promise RAID 0/1 IDE Driver v2.00 for XP - Asus released a new
PROMISE RAID 0/1 IDE Driver
(build 13) for Windows XP.
- New NVIDIA WHQL Certified Drivers 27.00 via Windows Update
- Windows Update
now offers brand new NVIDIA Detonator 27.00 WHQL Certified for download. Those drivers
were published on January 23th 2002, WHQL certified on January 16th 2002 and are dated
December 19th 2001. These new drivers apparently support only the forthcoming NVIDIA
GeForce 4 MX440/460, Quadro 4 200/400NVS and Quadro 4 500XGL. (thanks ActiveWin)
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