Moosoft released today a new version of The Cleaner, anti-malware. Free for personal use and there’s no unwanted toolbar or Search Assistant in its installer 🙂 It will work in Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP3, Vista SP1 and also to Windows 7. http://www.moosoft.com/TheCleaner/TheCleaner I tried the smart scan and it finished in less than 7 minutes. Light to use also. Screenshot at Calendar of Updates.
APSB09-05 Updates available to address Flash Media Server privilege escalation issue Release date: April 30, 2009 Vulnerability identifier: APSB09-05 CVE number: CVE-2009-1365 Platform: Windows and Linux Summary A potential vulnerability has been identified in Flash Media Server 3.5.1 and earlier that could allow an attacker to execute remote procedures in Flash Media Interactive Server or Flash Media Streaming Server. Adobe recommends users update to the most current version of Flash Media Server (3.5.2 or 3.0.4 or greater) Affected software versions Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 3.5.1, Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5.1 and earlier To verify the Adobe Flash Media … Continue reading Adobe Security Advisory APSB09-05 for Flash Media Server
Not only Calendar of Updates stops posting updates information on security software that have Ask but also LanzDown. Check the blog of our friend, MS MVP Corrine Chorney at her Security Garden. Some says nothing wrong with security vendors adding Ask Search or Ask Toolbar. I don’t think so. When a security software added unwanted, unnecessary and questionable service…. many internet users cannot trust their detection or services anymore. They can easily remove detection or warning on such actions just because they are doing the same thing by making their product “Adware”or Freeware with Crapware/Craplets or Trialware with Crapware.
Windows 7 Beta will expire on August 1, 2009, and bi-hourly shutdowns will begin July 1, 2009. RC will expire June 1, 2010, and the bi-hourly shutdowns will begin on March 1, 2010. The Windows 7 RC is available now to TechNet and MSDN subscribers and on http://www.microsoft.com/springboard starting May 5th. http://blogs.technet.com/springboard/archive/2009/04/30/plan-ahead-for-windows-7-beta-and-rc-expiration-dates.aspx
I tried to download Windows 7 RC via MSDN and I don’t like the download speed (estimated time to finish is 10 hours)…. I cancelled it. I am now downloading it via MS Connect since I’m a registered beta-tester for Windows. I find the speed in MS Connect is much better than MSDN because we get to choose the download location: Asia, Europe or US. I selected the download server in Asia that’s why it’s faster and now I’m 2 hours left to finish downloading it!
Microsoft Windows Vista is prone to a discovery-spoofing vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to conduct redirect attacks on another host on the network. This may lead to further attacks. Note that to exploit this issue, the attacker must have access to the local network segment of a target computer. Vulnerable: Microsoft Windows Vista December CTP Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise Microsoft Windows Vista Business Microsoft Windows Vista beta 2 Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 1 Microsoft Windows Vista Beta Microsoft Windows Vista 0 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23293/discuss
Google has fixed a bug in its Chrome browser which could allow cross-site scripting and other dangerous policy violations under interesting circumstances: when Chrome is called from Internet Explorer because a link is executed in IE with the "chromehtml" protocol handler. Update Chrome to get to the new version 1.0.154.59, which they say fixes the problem, but that’s not what’s really interesting about this bug. What’s interesting is that it’s actually a new manifestation of an old problem: external protocol handlers are called from Internet Explorer with malicious input; IE just calls the handler with the supplied input. In this … Continue reading Google Joins Mozilla, Blames IE for Chrome Bug
Why SP2 Fever? Because it’s what Microsoft announced: Office Service Pack 2 – I’m done with this. I have it installed. 400+MB (including the Help files!). I hope and pray that my connection will not disconnects and it did not 🙂 Vista Service Pack 2 – It’s coming Q2 of 2009 and the benefits is posted in Vista Team blog. See also the Release Notes for Vista SP2. BTW, check the updated version of Vista and XP Security Guides. Today is April 30 at my location but it’s not April 30 yet in the US which means I can still … Continue reading Service Pack 2 Fever
Happy 15th Anniversary, Opera! My birthday wish to you is more speed. My request to you is a built-in updater like Software Updater in Firefox 🙂
Panda Research Blog announced the first *BETA version of Panda Cloud Antivirus, a free cloud-based antivirus thin-client. Panda Cloud Antivirus consists of a lightweight antivirus agent that is connected in real-time to PandaLabs’ Collective Intelligence servers to protect faster against the newest malware variants while barely impacting PC performance. http://research.pandasecurity.com/archive/Panda-Cloud-Antivirus-_2D00_-Free-AV-thin_2D00_client.aspx *BETA – Use at your own risk!
