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SEATTLE -- Microsoft is releasing a major package of updates and fixes for the Windows VISTA computer operating system.

The company says Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will improve efficiency, performance and security.

Microsoft says Service Pack 1 was released today to computer makers. It will be available to consumers in March.

Microsoft ALSO is releasing Windows Server 2008 to upgrade computer servers.

Vista has been on SALE for more than a YEAR. It was Microsoft's first new computer operating system in FIVE years.

...
Or is this an entirely new thing, so many people wanting to stick with an older OS? ...

FOUND an old thread on computing.net

"I for one would like to go on the record as saying VISTA sucks.
I am at my second clean install(in 5 days) on a new H/D fully formatted both times and loaded nothing but office and Norton 2002 and it is still an unstable P.O.S.
It freezes,pauses,hangs,skips,reboots and is generally fustrating.
The running task list is a flurry of duplicate items,with no HELP from even MS(generic tasks/components says the KB)
The interface suitable for preschoolers and the elderly.
MSN mesenger and "pop-up" ballons nag at every turn.
NO its not that I dont have enough memory(384 meg) or processor(pIII 700)
NO its not the components(all are less than a year and a half old and VISTA A-OK,so says MS)
NO its not the brand new HD or anything else...ITS THE CODE
ME is the BOMB compared to this junk,save yourself the $200 bucks.
BTW My ME installation(original)after 14 months still runs without a hitch.
Oh and dont bother with any help on the VISTA side of this board,apparently it is only for asking questions because few if any get answers and when they do they are marginal.
Everyone else is too busy trying to keep their VISTA system running long enough to get a post in,nevermind answer one!!
Thank you for your time...
jimi_l"

The rest gets mostly worse......I still found it amusing, specially in light of he last couple of topics in this forum.

I don't LOVE Vista. I don't hate it either. I've just been using it as a main desktop OS for almost a year and I'm now more familiar with it then with XP. And I look forward to Vienna. Not because it will be better/nicer. But because it will be different. It's like an adventure: most of the fun is when you plan for it and when you recount it. In the middle of it it's mostly wet socks for 12 hours, stale water, scarce food, mosquito bites galore......
Ah, back to enlighten people about the mysterious disappearance of the Start button (they've noticed it's not there anymore. Some wonder if he tutorials where the button is mentioned still apply, others want to know why it has been changed. The last ones are usually the ones that previously pointed out how silly it was to have to click on "START" in order to shut down the PC......)

So this is in fact a new "thing" then, for people not to rush to the new product?

I thought it was, but not having been interested in computers at the "changing of the guard" before this, I wasn't entirely sure.
I think that perhaps more people now are reading reviews before upgrading or buying, and as Vista has so many negative reviews (yes, there are positive ones too, however the negative reviews are usually more outspoken, and there are usually more of them) it seems to have put people off.

TITLE:
IrfanView FlashPix Plug-in Memory CORRUPTION Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28688

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28688/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
IrfanView FlashPix Plug-In 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/17367/

DESCRIPTION:
Marsu has discovered a vulnerability in the FlashPix plug-in for
IrfanView, which POTENTIALLY can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the FlashPix
plug-in (fpx.dll) when processing FlashPix (*.fpx) FILES. This can be
exploited to cause a heap corruption by e.g. tricking a user into
opening a specially crafted FlashPix file.

Successful exploitation MAY allow the execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.9.8.0 of fpx.dll. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted FlashPix (*.fpx) files.

Sydney and Brno, 9 January 2008 - Security experts at Grisoft, developer of the AVG family of security SOFTWARE products, today published their analysis of 2007's top viruses, Internet hacks and exploits, and revealed their forecast for the top security threats facing computer users in 2008.

According to the team, viruses made up some 15 percent of the threat landscape in 2007, consistent with the company's predictions at the end of 2006. Phishing scams, backdoor worms, Trojans, keyloggers, spyware, adware and other web-based exploits comprised the majority of threats.

Top Ten Viruses for 2007
According to AVG global security strategist Larry Bridwell, the 10 viruses exhibiting the most staying power in 2007 were:
1. W32/Detnat
2. W32/Netsky
3. W32/Mytob
4. W32/Bagle
5. W32/MyWife
6. W32/Virut
7. W32/Zafi
8. W32/MyDoom
9. W32/Lovegate
10. W32/Bagz

"The anti-virus industry has been in a transition period for the past two to three years as malware has morphed from simple viruses to complex malicious website hacks that combine exploits and social engineering to scam unsuspecting users of their data," said Bridwell. "As 2008 ushers in new security issues and challenges, Internet users need to boost their anti-malware defences with safe surfing tools like AVG LinkScanner that detect and stop web exploits in real time."

Unlike traditional malware such as viruses or Trojans that are created by thrill-seeking programmers and computer geeks trying to create chaos, exploits are a fast-growing category of crimeware APPLICATIONS used by criminal cyber-gangs to steal digital assets for financial gain. Exploits are usually DELIVERED in the form of drive-by downloads intended to take advantage of unpatched computer vulnerabilities.

"2007 was the year that cybercriminals began to seriously employ exploits and social engineering attacks to undermine the trusted web," adds Grisoft chief technology officer Karel Obluk. "This year we expect the bad guys to leverage the knowledge gained to wage larger scale attacks using a wide range of malware tools. The real danger is that these attacks will begin to impact the growth of search engine and social networking use."

Top Ten Web Exploits for 2007
Drawing on research gained through its recent acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs, AVG identified the following as the top ten web exploits of 2007:
1. Super Bowl/Dolphins website drive-by download hack (February)
2. Google AdWords reroute via malicious site (April)
3. Google Bait & Switch keyword site exploit servers (July)
4. Bank of India website drive-by download hack (August)
5. Storm Trojan Fakes YouTube Links through phishing and fake codecs (August)
6. .Gov Hacks cause government websites to serve porn, malware, and fake anti-spyware (September)
7. Facebook Banner Ads used to distribute adware-driven exploits (September)
8. Alicia Keys/MySpace Hack deliver behind-the-scenes drive-by exploits (November)
9. MLB & NHL.com malicious banner ads hijack user sessions, push malware (November)
10. Monster.com hack feeds exploits to jobseekers (November)

"From the attacks on Facebook and the Major League Baseball Web site to the Alicia Keys' sites, it's clear over the past year that incidence of online threats is accelerating," said Roger Thompson, chief research officer at Grisoft "In 2008, Internet users are likely to see more sophisticated attacks as organised cybercriminals step up their efforts to steal digital assets from social networking site users. Social networks are particularly vulnerable because they rely heavily on hyperlinked content, information sharing and the trust of their participants."

Top Security Threats Expected in 2008
Thompson's team has identified five major areas of continued or INCREASED risk for Internet users in the coming year:
1. Web exploits and web-based social engineering attacks. "Viruses will continue to be a threat, but we'll also see an explosion of exploits through social engineering and Web 2.0 attacks in 2008," said Thompson.

2. Storm Worm on the rise. "Storm is here to stay," said Obluk. "We're seeing pieces of Storm sold off to the bad guys and we expect orchestrated attacks across multiple platforms."

3. Email-propagated viruses. Many novice users remain unaware of email security issues and continue to open attachments from senders they do not know or click on unsafe hyperlinks.

4. Web exploits targeting trusted web sites. "Today's cybercriminals tend to go for the low-hanging fruit," said Thompson. "If they can infiltrate a popular site, they will reap their rewards quickly and be gone in no time."

5. An INCREASE in the number of Windows Vista attacks. With increasing adoption of Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista will become a bigger and thus a more tempting target for the bad guys.

While AVG expects international law makers to pay closer attention to cybercrime in 2008, it's unlikely that stronger laws will deter cybercriminals. "The international laws against drug trafficking have not significantly dented the traffickers' incomes," said Obluk. "So there's little reason for us to believe that laws against criminal behaviour in cyberspace will have much impact on online fraud. There is simply too much money to be made."

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Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent, in Cannes

After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will GIVE fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs.

With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly EMBRACED the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a DIGITAL service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks.

The service has been endorsed by the very same record companies - including EMI, Universal Music and Warner Music – that have chased file-sharers through the courts in a doomed ATTEMPT to prevent piracy. The gamble is that fans will put up with a limited amount of advertising around the Qtrax website’s jukebox in return for authorised use of almost EVERY song available

Jealous are we?

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According to several news reports, Sony is working to create a new controller for its next-gen gaming PLATFORM, PlayStation 3. The big surprise (or maybe not so big) is that the new controller seems inspired by the already famous Wiimote.

I personally think the Nintendo 64 was the last Console system worth owning. And No that isn't because it is the newest one I have- I don't have any anymore

Quote from: BC_Programmer on June 29, 2008, 06:43:33 PM

I personally think the Nintendo 64 was the last Console system worth owning. And No that isn't because it is the newest one I have- I don't have any anymore

I still have mine

I should start a poll "How many computers do you have"

Thanks to the SUPPORT of the always amazing Mozilla community, we now hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 and are now enjoying a SAFER, smarter and better Web.

Ever since Firefox was launched in 2004 we've relied on our community to help us spread the word, and thanks to projects including crop circles, newspaper ads, giant stickers, videos, blogs and more we now have over 180 million users in more than 230 countries.

So what's next? We'll just have to wait and SEE what YOU come up with!

Poor North Korea: 0

You find some odd things in End User License Agreements (EULAs) - if you can be bothered to wade through the small print. Deep within Apple's iTunes EULA you'll find the following:

"Licensee also agrees that Licensee will not use the Apple SOFTWARE for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, WITHOUT limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons."

"Licensee also agrees that Licensee will not use the Apple Software for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons."

Huh. Guess I'll need to start working on getting a PI LICENSE. Maybe that'd be a good thing, I think more chicks would dig me if I said I was a PI instead of a COMPUTER technician.

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From its Texas Rangers to its ENTHUSIASTIC take on the death penalty, the Lone Star State has long been known for its aggressive stance on law enforcement. Thanks to a strange new law, it's a sting that may soon be felt by a number of the state's computer-repair people.

A recently passed law requires that Texas computer-repair technicians have a private-investigator license, according to a story posted by a Dallas-Fort Worth CW affiliate.

Link

PI is private investigator rightYeah.
wow! they need that for repair! An unmentioned point is that you'll ALSO need to promote one of your employees (or hire one) to the position of "higgins".

Here is a very interesting article.

Say it ain’t so AVG, say it ain’t so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?Quote

AVG SOFTWARE pre-crawls search results to try to protect users.

The instructions are not for the novice user!

(at least not now)

Friday Bill Gates resigns an becomes visor of the company an three associates are supposed to take his place. Its on early show.com, I think that we may see some changes soon. Yeah, I head he was stepping down.

Good job Bill!

Like us, we all make mistakes *cough*Vista*cough* Yea he changed the way we think, learn, work, communicate, play etc. etc. etc......and made many, many people loads of money in the process.

Good thing that mind is no longer around to influence anyone I wonder how long microsoft will last without him.....Quote from: michaewlewis on June 26, 2008, 09:50:52 AM

I wonder how long microsoft will last without him.....

Its not that I dont like him, but I hate people who flash there money an think there better then everyone.

Instead of linking to the news articles discussing this new SERVICE from GOOGLE I thought I'd just link to their page. Looks LIKE an interesting new service from Google. Basically a 3D chat ENVIRONMENT. If anyone happens to get on let us KNOW. Too late/early for me to try this before going to sleep.

http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html

Get ready to never leave your home. Pioneer announced this week a read-only Blu-ray technology that could put up to 48 hours, or 400GB, of movies on a single disc.

By comparison, the current Blu-ray Disc format stores 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer version. A 50GB Blu-ray disc can hold up to about six hours of high-definition video.

16 Layers

The new Pioneer technology has 16 layers on a conventional 12-centimeter optical disc, and is currently a play-only version. The company has indicated that a writable version is being developed.

Pioneer's announcement said "it is POSSIBLE to maintain compatibility" between the new, very high-density Blu-ray format and existing players. However, the company indicated that some kind of modification may be necessary, either in the production of the discs or in the players.

The key to making such storage possible, Pioneer said, is reducing interference between adjacent layers, as its prototype does.

A formal announcement of the 400GB technology is expected at the International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage, which begins Sunday in Hawaii. Industry observers anticipate that Pioneer will not commercially produce the discs, but will work with manufacturers. TDK has also announced a high-capacity disc, with six layers and a 150GB capacity.

In a separate announcement, Pioneer said it will start selling Blu-ray recorders in Japan before NEXT March.

The recorders, to be sold under the Pioneer brand, will be made with Sharp Electronics. Sharp, Sony and Matsushita control virtually the entire Blu-ray market in Japan. Matsushita makes Panasonic products. No plans for sales of the recorder in the U.S. or elsewhere were announced.

'Not Earth-Shattering'

Josh Martin, an analyst with industry research firm Yankee Group, said the new, high-capacity disc is "interesting, but not earth-shattering." He said the last time he checked, it was not much cheaper to produce a Blu-ray disc with, say, three times the capacity of a single disc, than to produce three discs.

And then there's the matter of value for the average consumer. Martin said "there is value to a consumer in having multiple discs for, say, a $100 set." He added that a single disc with the same amount of movies, at the same price, doesn't have the same perceived value. But, Martin noted, a high-capacity recordable Blu-ray disc might have value in some businesses.

In general, he said Blu-ray player and disc sales appear to be picking up momentum, but there probably won't be any SIGNIFICANT sales until closer to the holiday season. Martin noted that some retailers, such as Amazon and Wal-Mart, have reduced the price of some titles to $15 from about $25 or $30, and this could spur sales.

Quote from: alan1000 on July 09, 2008, 05:06:55 AM

Quote from: Saviour on June 29, 2008, 06:28:37 PM

Compared to Vista...I'd be willing to pay the extra $50...in a HEARTBEAT!

Does everything XP can do, at the same speed, in HALF the memory...

NO SOLUTION, yet!

TITLE:
Microsoft WORD Unspecified Code Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30975

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30975/

CRITICAL:
Extremely critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Microsoft Office XP
http://secunia.com/product/23/
Microsoft Word 2002
http://secunia.com/product/2150/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Word, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a USER's system.

The vulnerability is CAUSED due to an unspecified error and can be
exploited to cause memory corruption via a SPECIALLY crafted
document.

Successful EXPLOITATION allows execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: According to the vendor, the vulnerability is currently being
actively exploited.

The vulnerability is reported in Microsoft Word 2002 SP3 and is
currently not believed to affect other versions.

SOLUTION:
The vendor suggests viewing Word documents in Microsoft Office Word
2003 Viewer or Microsoft Office Word 2003 Viewer SP3.Still running Word 2000 on many of my machines, which I guess is not affected. However, I don't care for their current solution they have. How about the alternative solution of viewing the word document in an open source program like OpenOffice Writer.

Yeah, it's a shame. A lot of desktop computers and laptops here are sold without an OS package. I know Acer, ASUS, and BenQ all offer their laptops here without an OS. It lowers the overall price of the laptop, then the customer usually installs a PIRATED copy of Windows XP on it (or the shop who sells the laptop does it for them!). More than a few times has a computer been brought into my shop with the request of installing Windows on it. I politely tell them sure, I'll do it, and then I tell them how much the OS costs and that they'll have to buy a licensed disc. They usually huff and puff then walk out of the shop.

Funny thing is, I know I could install the pirated software here and get away with it. I just won't.Quote from: quaxo on July 05, 2008, 11:54:54 AM

Funny thing is, I know I could install the pirated software here and get away with it. I just won't.

I tend to think of Vista on a computer as analogous to putting a old lady in a lamborghini- the car will never reach it's potential. (alright- cases can be made for memory and such, but performance-wise Vista will almost never touch XP)

Quote from: BC_Programmer on July 08, 2008, 05:53:42 AM

I tend to think of Vista on a computer as analogous to putting a old lady in a lamborghini- the car will never reach it's potential. (alright- cases can be made for memory and such, but performance-wise Vista will almost never touch XP)

It's not meant to, and that's the point people are missing.
Due to the huge gap of 7 years between the two systems, the performance lag is also huge.
Think Windows 95 compared to Windows XP, and then some - Vista's gap is nowhere near that huge.
I hope this makes sense, I do know what I want to say but not sure if that said it.

All GOOD now. I waited until add-ons got updated, and INSTALLED FF3 TWO DAYS ago.Mozilla’s GUINNESS World Record Certificate

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2008/07/10/mozillas-guinness-world-record-certificate/Nice

AVG 7.5 FREE will no longer be supported after 31ST August 2008
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Support for AVG 7.5 Free Edition is planned to end on 31st August 2008.

No more VIRUS updates are planned for after that date.

Note that no more 'program' updates are due! Only virus updates will CONTINUE until the end date.

AVG 7.5 Paid version will be supported until 31/12/08.

---- Original Message ----

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going BACKWARDS and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.

Let me give you my experience from yesterday.

I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack ... so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.

The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.

This site is so slow it is unusable.

It wasn't in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.

These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear.

They are not filtered by the system ... and so many of the things are strange.

I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.

So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).

I tried that. The site was PATHETICALLY slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.

I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.

In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.

This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?

So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.

Doesn't Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?

Then I did the scan. This took quite some TIME and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.

This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.

So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn't use it for anything else during this time.

What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.

Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?

So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state.

So I got back up and running and went to Windows Update again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.

So I went back to Microsoft.com and looked at the instructions. I have to click on a folder called WindowsXP. Why should I do that? Windows Update knows I am on Windows XP.

What does it mean to have to click on that folder? So I get a bunch of confusing stuff but sure enough one of them is Moviemaker.

So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.

At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.

So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like "Open" or "Save". No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.

The download is fast and the install takes 7 minutes for this thing.

So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.

It is not there.

What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.

Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.

But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.

What an absolute mess.

Moviemaker is just not there at all.

So I give up on Moviemaker and decide to download the Digital Plus Package.

I get told I need to go enter a bunch of information about myself.

I enter it all in and because it decides I have mistyped something I have to try again. Of course it has cleared out most of what I typed.

I try (typing) the right stuff in 5 times and it just keeps clearing things out for me to type them in again.

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven't run Moviemaker and I haven't got the plus package.

The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a LOW with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)

When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.

Instead of patching a newer machine, just get a Windows 3.1 machine hooked up to the net. that way, any viruses or anything that do get downloaded can't run anyway!

Heres something interesting to read, as it happened and is still happening:

'Maniacal' computer engineer Terry Childs takes city network hostage

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A disgruntled computer engineer has been sitting in a prison cell for four days after locking out everyone but himself from a city computer system.

Terry Childs is accused of tampering with San Francisco's new computer network to give himself exclusive access. He has REFUSED to hand over the password and is being held on $5 million bail while officials try to crack his code.

A computer engineer accused of taking control of San Francisco's network and locking out other system administrators has pleaded innocent to four counts of computer tampering.
Terry Childs, 43, of Pittsburg, Calif., was arraigned on CHARGES Thursday before Superior Court Judge Paul Alvarado, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. He remained in jail Friday on $5 million bail.

Childs has refused to disclose the password he allegedly created to lock out other system administrators and supervisors from the city's new FiberWAN (wide area network), which stores 60% of all city government data, including e-mails, law enforcement records, and payroll documents.

San Francisco Department of Technology employee Terry Childs was in a jail cell Friday, accused of illegally locking out fellow authorized network administrators from the city computer network he helped build. But as the case against Childs entered its sixth day, questions remained about his motivations for the alleged crimes, the extent of the damage he allegedly did and whether the San Francisco District Attorney's Office has the expertise necessary to prosecute such a high-profile cybercrime case.
Childs, 43, plead not guilty Thursday to four felony counts of computer network tampering and one count of causing losses in excess of $200,000 as a result of the alleged tampering. ARRESTED last Sunday and arraigned Tuesday, Childs' bail has been set at $5 million. He has a bail hearing scheduled for next Wednesday at 9am PT.

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Rumors about the Internet as we know it dying by 2012 have been circulating for some time now, so it’s not really that surprising when the TrendLabs Content Security team was ALERTED that a Trojan is taking advantage of this conspiracy theory in order to trick users into running it.
Then again, spammed email with sensational headlines do make even the most cautious computer users take a peek (the latest NUWAR/Storm run being a prime EXAMPLE). What more when the said headlines tell them that the Internet, which has been PRACTICALLY their extra limbs since the last century, will suddenly be up for…TV-like subscriptions?
The malware involved in this spam run is detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_PIDIEF.JT, a Trojan that arrives as a PDF file named doc.pdf. This file promises more information regarding the alleged Internet death, and based on the email subjects and details it arrives with (see sample messages below), it’s not easy NOT to double-click on it:

PIDIEF Trojans are known malware droppers or downloaders, so once users click on the attached PDF file — and whether or not they believe the theory — another malware is already up and running on their systems and doing their malicious routines.

Trend Micro users already blocks this spam with its Smart Protection Network. Other users, as always, are advised to keep their systems and applications up to date with the latest security patches and to be wary when opening SUSPICIOUS email, no matter how interesting they appear to be.

• Fixed several security issues.
  
• Fixed several stability issues.
• Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch.
• Under certain circumstances, Firefox 3.0 did not properly save the SSL certificate exceptions list.
• Updated the internal Public Suffix list.
  
• In certain cases, installing Firefox 2 in the same directory in which Firefox 3 has been installed resulted in Firefox 2 being unstable. This issue was fixed as part of Firefox 2.0.0.15.
• Fixed an issue where, when printing a SELECTED region of content from the middle of a page, some of the output was missing (bug 433373).
  
• Fixed a Linux issues where, for users on a PPP CONNECTION (dialup or DSL) Firefox always started in "Offline" mode (bug 424626).

It's been out for a few days but for some reason my auto updates never kicked in. I tried to wait but ended up doing it manually.

Firefox 2 has updated to 2.0.0.15 also.

If you use TabMixPlus, you MAY wait with FF updating.Tab Mix Plus Dev-Build 0.3.6.1.080416 WORKS.

http://tmp.garyr.net/tab_mix_plus-dev-build.xpi

This is what I'm getting, when trying to update:



so I'm not sure, if I should take a RISK?I don't know why they won't sign off on it through mozilla. Everyone keeps asking but they aren't answering for some reason.

The link above works, and is safe. It's what I had to use when I updated today and comes from the Tab Mix Plus forums - http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/index.phpWrong link above. Here is the dev builds thread - http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7031I have build 416 installed, but FF warns me about incompatibility.
Did you install 3.0.1, and TMP works?No and yes. When I updated to 3.0.1 today TMP wouldn't install (incompatible) so I went to the forums and reinstalled the latest build and it worked fine. GOT a warning but ignored it.Wait. You didn't have TMP before 3.0.1 update?Yes I had the same build I do now with FF3.0. When I updated to FF3.1 today TMP wouldn't install. I think the NEW FF3.1 "broke" the TMP install. Not sure, all I know is I reinstalled it and it was back to normal.Oh, OK. Here is a thread discussing what happened. I don't understand half of it but I think what they are basically saying is to reinstall the dev build .I did edit install.rdf file as prescribed in your link, FF update still gave me warning about TMP, but update installed without damaging TMP.
Good, thanks.I don't know who is to blame, the developers or mozilla but I wish they would get it together. It's been long enough now.

and besides if you try to hack your modem, then you'll void the warranty.and get your service cut off there were accually about 8 people in ohio who got arrested for this usually that doesnt happen thoughQuote from: DaveLembke on JULY 16, 2008, 12:33:07 PM

you will lose your internet until your ISP REFERENCES the MAC to your account.

and get your service cut off

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Cybercrime is evolving. The lone hacker who steals and resells credit card numbers is being replaced by a well-structured BUSINESS model. The game is no longer simply about hacking for fame, but rather about creating a business where you have frequent customers who buy your stolen product. The latest research report from web security company Finjan gives a peek at what exactly is going on.

sorry wait a minute. From WAT it SAID in the video. if its just going through a computer, what the NSA is saying then the NSA EMPLOYES ARENT even laying an eye on it. ok so the computer is just filtering it but its a computer so its not gonna LAUGH at so random email.

how can i obtain a secondary email addressSign up to Yahoo/Hotmail (Windows Live Mail)/gmail or any other of the free email providers. CONTACT your ISP as well...some of them give you as many as 10 per ACCOUNT...Quote from: patio on FEBRUARY 01, 2008, 09:39:40 AM

Contact your ISP as well...some of them give you as many as 10 per account...

TITLE:
Skype Cross-Zone Scripting Security Enhancement

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28791

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28791/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Skype for Windows 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/12919/
Skype for Windows 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/7268/
Skype for Windows 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4250/

DESCRIPTION:
An update has been released for Skype, which implements security
enhancements to prevent compromise of users' systems.

Skype uses the Internet Explorer web control to render HTML from
certain websites (e.g. DailyMotion, METACAFE, and SkypeFind). As the
content is rendered in the "Local Machine" security zone, this allows
execution of arbitrary script code on a user's system via script
insertion vulnerabilities present in these websites.

Various vulnerabilities have been DISCOVERED in these sites, which
provide vectors when a user e.g. uses the Skype video gallery browser
section or finds a video UPLOADED to the DailyMotion gallery with a
specially crafted video title.

Successful exploitation requires that a displayed website is
vulnerable to script insertion.

The vulnerability is reported in the following Skype for Windows
VERSIONS:
- All versions including 3.5.*
- Version 3.6.*.244 and prior

SOLUTION:
Update or upgrade to version 3.6.*.248 or later, which now runs the
Internet Explorer web control in the "Internet" security zone.

http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/