IE 7 No Longer a Secret Agent
Compatibility Issues When Surfing in IE7? Use User Agent String Utility to Spoof or Simulate as IE6Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0 ; Windows NT 6.0)
neowin.net - 27.10.2006Palo Alto integrates firewall with Active Directory
Palo Alto Networks is set to announce at Interop New York the ability to map
firewall rules to individual users via integration with Microsofts Active Directory.
Palo Alto is introducing a software agent
that directly taps Active Directory servers to gather data about users and user groups and pass it along to the firewall. The agent is deployed at the
server, and no client agents are required.
winbeta.org - 22.10.2007WiLMA - Windows Live Messenger concierge
New to Windows Live Messenger? You want some help to know and learn features of Messenger? Check out Wilma, Windows Live Messenger concierge agent.
Let Wilma the Concierge Agent show you how to connect, have control, share and express yourself! Shes your friend with the inside tips to get you
up and running in no time flat.
Just add Wilma@live.com to your contacts! And see her help to your queries.
winbeta.org - 03.09.2007Defcon 1, Dateline 0
In a sweltering hot parking
lot, a young woman clutches
her purse and runs to her car,
chased by dozens of people.
But shes not being robbed
because the mob in pursuit - a
strange mix of Defcon
attendees, press and security
personnel just want pictures
and video of the undercover
reporter thats just been
outted by Defcon officials.
We reported
earlier that the Defcon
computer security convention
was being infiltrated by a NBC
Dateline team armed with
hidden cameras. Their goal
was to secretly record hackers
admitting to felonies.
According to Priest, a
senior Defcon staffer,
Dateline also wanted to
videotape a federal agent
going up on stage and then
broadcast it on national
television.
It just really isnt cool
to do that, Priest said,
adding that criminals or
terrorists could recognize the
agent if they were to travel
overseas.
Defcons security team a
team that probably includes
current and former federal
agents wasnt going to let
that happen and hatched a plan
to turn the hunter into the
hunted...
winbeta.org - 04.08.2007Microsoft pulls plug on potty-mouth Santa
Turns out Santa himself is naughty and nice.
An artificial-intelligence Santa bot operated by Microsoft to talk to children wavered off topic saying: Its fun to talk about oral
sex, but I want to chat about something else....
Yesterday we received reports that the automated Santa Claus agent in Windows
Live Messenger used inappropriate language. As soon as we were alerted, we took steps to mitigate the issue, including the removal of language from
the agents automated script. We were not completely satisfied with the result of these actions, and have decided to discontinue the automated Santa
Claus agent, Microsoft said in a statement sent to Network World .
winbeta.org - 04.12.2007Microsoft Delivers Cost-Effective Customer Support With Automated Service Agent
Today at the SSPA Best Practices 2008 conference, Microsoft Corp. announced that it has further enhanced its online self-service and internal support
tool, Microsoft Automated Service Agent (ASA), with a variety of new features. Powered
by Microsofts natural language technology, ASA is a hosted solution that allows customers to interact in a chat-style session and ask questions in
their own words, and helps them get concise, accurate answers. The solution helps to deflect support calls, guide users to the right answers, and
serve as a valuable knowledge resource inside the enterprise. A winner of the Spring 2008 SSPA Recognized Innovator Award for Innovation in Usability,
Microsoft ASA currently has customers across multiple industries, including the financial, high-tech and telecommunications industries.
winbeta.org - 06.05.2008Splinter Cell: Double Agent PC Single & Multiplayer Demos
Ubisoft out of the
kindness of their hearts has
released not one, but two
demos for Sam Fisher's next
romp out in the cruel
terrorist-infested world -
Splinter Cell: Double Agent.
Note of major importance
folks, you must have a
Shader model 3.0 video card to
run this demo (and game duh)
so don't even download if you
don't have a video card that
supports Shader model 3.0.
That being said, there is a
single and multiplayer demo
for you to sample Mr.
Fisher's next adventure, the
singleplayer demo clocks in at
850MB and the multiplayer demo
clocks in at 790MB. I do not
know what the multiplayer demo
contains, such as how many
maps or what you can play game
mode wise, so sorry about that
one. Same goes for the
singleplayer demo, I don't
know how far into the game you
can play.
So have
at it PC gamers, enjoy. And
make sure you give that brand
spanking new G80 video card a
test drive with these babies!
Feel free to add mirrors in
the news comments if you need
to.
Singleplayer Demo
Links:
neowin.net - 10.11.2006Upcoming Update to Windows Update
Michelle Haven: I'd like to let you know that, beginning at the end of this month and continuing over the next few months, well be rolling out an
infrastructure update to the Windows Update agent (client). I wanted to take this opportunity to provide some background on the update and discuss
the value these updates bring to you.
winbeta.org - 03.07.2008Google Chrome gets updates, pretends to be Safari
Remember Google Chrome? The new browser that was one of Betanews' Top 20
Stories of 2008, and certainly across the Internet as a whole? Well, after the initial hype that Chrome (and its subsequent first vulnerabilities) caused, the browser quietly broke the 1 percent mark of browser share this
month. Google this week released updates addressing one moderate, and one severe security threat, and provides fixes for Yahoo Mail and Windows
Live Hotmail.
The Moderate security update addresses a cross-site scripting vulnerability linked to the Adobe Reader plugin, and the severe
update is for a bug in the V8 JavaScript engine that could allow malicious users to "clickjack" sensitive information by bypassing
same-origin checks.
Previously, the ability to send an email would break Yahoo's Webmail, this issue has been
fixed. The Hotmail bug is actually being worked on by Microsoft's team, as it is not so much a problem with Chrome as it is with Hotmail's
recognition of Chrome. Google has deployed a workaround that changes the user agent string that Google Chrome sends when requesting URLs that end with
"mail.live.com." The result is that Chrome reportedly changes its user agent string to tell Hotmail that it's Safari...
betanews.com - 31.01.2009Microsoft releases September security updates
Microsoft has released its security patches for September, fixing known vulnerabilities in its MSN Messenger software and Unix services for Windows as
well as a critical bug in Windows 2000. In total, Microsoft patched four bugs in its products. This was one less update than expected following the
software maker's last-minute decision to scrap a fix for its SharePoint collaboration software.
The Windows 2000 update is the only one
Microsoft rates as critical. It affects the Microsoft Agent software that Web developers use to create interactive characters on Web pages. By
tricking a Windows 2000 user into visiting a maliciously encoded Web page, an attacker could exploit this flaw to run unauthorized software on a
victim's computer.
This is not the first time Microsoft has been forced to patch a critical bug in Microsoft Agent. In April, the company
fixed a similar flaw that also affected Windows XP users. Because the MSN Messenger and Windows Services for Unix flaws were both publicly disclosed
last month, they should also be given priority said Amol Sarwate, manager of Qualys's vulnerability research lab.
neowin.net - 13.09.2007Beware of fake Microsoft security alerts
With Microsoft's monthly
patch release expected on
Tuesday, scammers are sending
out fake security bulletins
that attempt to install
malicious software on
victim's computers.
The e-mail messages claim
to describe a "Cumulative
Security Update for Internet
Explorer" that fixes a
critical security flaw in the
browser. It comes with a link
entitled "Download this
update."
When users
click on this link, they are
taken to a server that
attempts to install malicious
software known as
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.
avk. This Trojan software then
attempts to reach out to other
computers on the Internet in
order to install more programs
on the victim's computer...
winbeta.org - 09.06.2007Qwest isn't sure if its throttling bandwidth
It seems that Qwest can't decide if it's throttling bandwidth or not. A user on Consumerist.com states that Qwest tech support told him that
they do throttle their bandwidth for excessive users, and then sometime later, the tech support agent called him back and reported that they do not
throttle bandwidth. According to the user who is based in Washington, Qwest puts rate limits on streaming intensive sites like Youtube. The user
confirmed this by running several speed tests and then viewing Youtube again and was receiving the slower data rate. Then by using an external proxy
he was able to achieve much faster speeds than if he directly connected to the site.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 06.05.2009