Monday, December 26th, 2005
There are ways that risks can be avoided. Recently, there was what was called a zero-day exploit for Internet Explorer. As I write this, the exploit surfaced 3 weeks ago and tomorrow there will be a patch. The vulnerability would allow remote code execution through a vulnerability in the way javascript is handled. So, for […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2005
Before I get things wrapped up, I like to scan rinse and repeat until the scans come up clean. So, this scan of AVG gives a chance to delete the archive entry I mentioned the first pass it took. And spybot get’s updated from the internet and re-runs. All looks clean there… Ad-aware get’s an […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
You can tell we’re in the last 10-12 days of the year when we start seeing all sorts of year end retrospectives, year’s in review, countdowns of the top ___ of ___year ending___. Well, spyware has seen a banner year in many respects and Suzi at Spyware Confidential has a rundown of the top 10 […]
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Thursday, December 15th, 2005
This is related to MS05-054… According to Incidents.org it’s possible that this will not install (user submission of this). They also have a user submitted workaround… Send article as PDF
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
Beta news is reporting that Internet Explorer 7 will use the same Icon for RSS feeds that Firefox currently uses. What’s more they say they’ll continue to work with Mozilla on consistency between the browsers….. All right, I’m going to be watching for the pigs flying next. No, seriously it’s great to see Microsoft warming […]
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
Do I really need a hardware firewall? I’m running XP Service Pack 2 with the built in firewall? (or norton, or zonealarm?) Well, personal firewalls (the name that software firewalls go by) are good for a great many things that hardware firewalls AREN’T. They do have their limitations though and I’ll try to cover those […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
Sans has the tip that information on the critical Windows updates expected tomorrow from Microsoft has started to be released. MS 05-54: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer This will hopefully patch the javascript issues… MS 05-55: Vulnerability in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege. Send article as PDF
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
Now, it can be useful to run several versions of the same program at the same time (especially if it’s a web browser.) I’ve accomplished this under linux with internet explorer, but didn’t realize there was a way to do so on Windows. Sunbelt blog found a good guide to installing Internet Explorer 7 beta […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
One of the changes Internet explorer 7.0 will see is a tightening of restrictions on the zone settings. Currently, there are four security zones for web sites: Internet, Intranet, Trusted Sites and Restricted Sites. Explorer tries to autodetect if a site is within the intranet (which becomes more trusted), or the internet (which becomes less […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
The title says most all, it’s reported that Microsoft will release a public beta of Internet Explorer 7 sometime in the first quarter of 2006. It’s unclear if this will be titled Beta 2 (a closed beta has already taken place.) The 2nd beta for Vista will be a public beta as well. Send […]
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