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(hx) 03:27 AM CET - Dec,20 2002
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- Video Game Industry Gets TV Award Show - The National
Network, a unit of the MTV Networks division of Viacom Inc. on Thursday said
it
will develop, produce and air an award show for the video game industry to
be shown toward the end of 2003. No venue for the show was announced. The
network said the two-hour show will honor categories like "Hottest Hero and
Heroine," "Most Addictive," "Coolest Villain," "Best Game based on a Movie,"
"Best Celebrity Actor and Actress in a Game" and "Game of the Year."
- Iomega ZIP-750MB Review - Tom's Hardware Guide has posted a review
of the
Iomega ZIP-750MB.
- Beware the Latest MP3 Worms - Music file swappers may unknowingly
be sharing their computers as well as their favorite tunes.
Two new security vulnerabilities, disclosed late Wednesday, allow an
attacker to completely take over a computer system by using malicious music
files. The first vulnerability is present in the Microsoft Windows XP
operating system This vulnerability can be exploited when a user simply lets
the cursor hover over the file icon for the malicious MP3, or opens a folder
where the file is stored (download
patch) The second is found in Nullsoft's Winamp, a popular Windows media
jukebox player (download fixed
WinAmp 2.81
~ direct
link or
Winamp
3 #488 (15 dec) - updated with fix).
- Macromedia Flash Crash -
A
buffer overrun flaw in Macromedia Flash can be used to inject malicious
code into target systems.
Potential attackers could try to persuade victims to download maliciously
altered versions of Macromedia Flash movies (SWF) but there's still a risk
there as crackers are hardly adverse to disguising Trojan code as prOn
download or Warez. Unusually, the vulnerability affects users of multiple
operating systems (Windows, Unix, Mac) who use Macromedia's application.
(download an updated player from
here).
- Win2k SP3 - Hyperlinks Open in IE Instead of in Default Browser -
To resolve this problem, download the
Critical
Update: 810649.
- Better support for default Web browsers in WinXP -
This update contains several fixes to Windows components to better support
default Web browsers other than Internet Explorer, as described in Microsoft
Knowledge Base (KB) Article 810649. Download now to improve the interaction of
certain Windows components with default web browsers other than Internet
Explorer.
- GDiVX Player v1.9.9 - Basically,
GDiVX is a Multimedia Player
(download)
for playing, primarily, DivX Movies, but technically almost any video format.
- PowerStrip v3.30 Build 366 Final - Another (ughh) updated final
version of Powerstrip
3.30.366 (bugfix release after 365) is out.
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