Vista Can Be Taken Down by an Animated Cursor
In what could be the most embarrassing exploit to impact Windows Vista since its commercial launch in January, security engineers at McAfee's Avert Labs confirmed today - and posted the video to prove - that the operating system can be caused to enter an interminable crash-restart-crash loop, by means of a buffer overflow triggered by nothing more than a malformed animated cursor file.
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30.3.2007 Microsoft Patches Windows Cursor Flaw
As expected, Microsoft has released security update MS07-017, which patches a critical vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling. The company says it was working on the fix since December, and has posted it early due to reports of attacks.
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4.4.2007 Firefox Also Vulnerable to Windows Cursor Exploit
Contrary to other reports, Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 is vulnerable to attackers armed with the Windows animated cursor exploit, a researcher says. Thanks to Matt for this news.
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5.4.2007 Microsoft repairs cursor vulnerability fix
Microsoft on Tuesday plans to push out a fix to repair problems caused by last week's emergency cursor flaw patch.
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10.4.2007 Lessons learned from the Animated Cursor Security Bug
A core tenet of the SDL is to take and incorporate lessons learned when we issue a security update, and there is a great deal to learn from the recent animated cursor bug,
MS07-017, so I want to spend a few minutes to go over some of the things we have learned from this bug.
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28.4.2007 How to delay all outgoing email in Outlook
I've been burnt many times on sending out an email that wasn't quite ready to go out. This could happen for a couple different reasons.
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7.7.2007 iPod, iTunes Have Problems with Vista
If you have an iPod, and plan to install Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, Apple has one word of advice for you: don't.
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4.2.2007 Windows Vista Activation Problems
Windows Vista has had everything but an easy ride since it hit the shelves in January 2007. The operating system was plagued by a luxuriant variety of problems from hardware and software incompatibilities to lack of support and poor performance and reliability.
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23.11.2007 1000GB of space for Email at mailnation.net
MailNation Solutions developed after years of exhaustive competition in the Emailing industry. Small email companies have come and go, while large email companies such as Gmail (R), Hotmail (R), and Yahoo! Mail (R) have dominated. Privacy policies with major companies are weak, reliability remains questioned, and features are lacking.
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Google ditches invites for email service
Google will drop the invite system for signing up to Gmail service as of tomorrow.
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15.2.2007 Windows XP Infections Coming by Email
Spammers are always willing to do anything it's possible to create huge lists of valid email addresses in order to be able to launch new attacks. They are even selling huge lists of emails to other spammers who intend to send unsolicited messages to all the contacts.
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27.12.2007 Quick Fixes for Five Nasty Vista Problems
Cool, it Works! One of the most common gripes we've seen in message boards all around the Internet involve users not being able to install AMD's Cool & Quiet drivers on Windows Vista, and therefore not getting the power saving effect.
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19.3.2007 Quick Fixes for Five Nasty Vista Problems
Cool, it Works! One of the most common gripes we've seen in message boards all around the Internet involve users not being able to install AMD's Cool & Quiet drivers on Windows Vista, and therefore not getting the power saving effect. AMD's driver Web pages only contain C&Q drivers for Windows XP.
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23.3.2007 Windows Vista Interface Causes Problems For Consumers
Windows Vista Interface Causes Problems For Consumers, Support Firm Says. Navigating Windows Vista's Aero user interface is a big problem for many consumers learning Microsoft's 6-month-old operating system, a technical support company said Thursday. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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13.7.2007 Microsoft execs saw problems with early Vista
Even some of Microsoft Corp.'s top officials struggled to make Windows Vista work smoothly when it was released, according to internal e-mails released Wednesday.
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28.2.2008 Vista SP1 Has Driver Compatibility Problems? Do Tell!
Ever since February 4, 2008, the day Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 were released to manufacturing, Microsoft made a move indicating that it was not entirely comfortable to release Vista SP1.
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4.3.2008 Five Vista perception problems Windows 7 must overcome
Wide Angle Zoom You can just feel Apple getting ready with a new slate of "I'm a Mac" ads featuring Windows 7. They'll have to roll off Microsoft like Teflon.
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29.5.2009 Microsoft Officially Opened @live.com Email Registration
Microsoft has officially opened the much anticipated and well overdue registration for the new @live.com email addresses.
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6.11.2007 Fake Google Email Attempts to Steal Your Money
We all know that Google, the Mountain View super search giant, communicates with its users by phone or by email every time users have to be informed about important matters.
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23.3.2008 Windows Vista: Betas show potential and problems
Windows Vista shows a lot of promise. With beta 2 of Microsoft's much anticipated operating system nearly ready to be released to the public, users will soon have the ability to judge for themselves how Microsoft's next generation operating system is coming along.
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19.5.2006 Resolve Vista SP2 Sound Problems Automatically
Microsoft is making it easy for users running Windows Vista Service Pack 2, but also SP1, to resolve sound problems affecting the operating system after the deployment of a service pack.
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15.6.2009 Windows Live Custom Domains - Free Email Hosting
A new service was added to the Windows Live Beta family today - Windows Live Custom Domains. The basic idea is that anyone with a domain can now point their MX record to the Live servers. What that means is that users can have Microsoft's servers hosting their own domain's email accounts for free.
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20.11.2005 Common Errors and Problems when Activating Windows Vista with KMS Server
Windows Vista Business edition and Windows Vista Enterprise edition can be activated by using a corporate KMS (Key Management Service) server, without contact or communicate with Microsoft.
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14.12.2006 Early Vista SP1 64-bit installs causing new problems?
An iTWire journo by the name of Alex has found yet another Vista SP1 issue to bitch about, this time it's the x64 version and early reports are pointing to several problems.
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25.2.2008 iPod Nano May Have Some Big problems
What some analysts have billed as the "top MP3 player this fall" may have just hit a potentially damaging roadblock - its own frailty.
Complaints have begun to circle on both Web logs and Apple's own support forums surrounding an issue with the polycarbonate plastic that covers the front of the iPod Nano. Some users claim the player scratches extremely easily, enough that it makes the screen difficult to read.
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MS: Another Patch for cursor patch
Stop 0x0000007F error when you try to print from computers that are running Windows XP or Windows 2000 and that have GDI security update 925902 installed
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20.4.2007 Microsoft Sued for Xbox 360 Problems
Microsoft has been sued by a Chicago man who bought the company's new Xbox 360 game console over alleged overheating and lockup issues. The suit, which asks for class-action status, accuses Microsoft of rushing to market a flawed system to ensure it beat competitors Sony and Nintendo to the punch.
According to Reuters, the suit seeks damages and litigation related expenses, as well as a replacement or recall of Xbox 360 consoles
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6.12.2005 Nvidia’s High-End Chipset Under Fire for Problems
Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics processor and core-logic sets, is about to face criticism from enthusiasts for the problems that occur with the company’s latest premium-class chipset.
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16.12.2006 Microsoft Responds To Vista's Network and Audio Problems
With the discovery last week of the connection between Vista's poor networking performance and audio activities, word quickly spread around the Net. No doubt this got Microsoft's attention, and they have responded to the issue. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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27.8.2007 XP SP3 Download Still Live Despite Widespread Problems
Downloads of Windows XP SP3 are still live and they’re going to remain this way, despite widespread problems.
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12.5.2008Vista Can Be Taken Down by an Animated Cursor
In what could be the most
embarrassing exploit to impact
Windows Vista since its
commercial launch in January,
security engineers at
McAfee's Avert Labs confirmed
today that the operating
system can be caused to enter
an interminable
crash-restart-crash loop, by
means of a buffer overflow
triggered by nothing more than
a malformed animated cursor
file...
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30.03.2007Microsoft Patches Windows Cursor Flaw
As expected, Microsoft has
released a security update to
patch a critical vulnerability
in Windows Animated Cursor
Handling. The company says it
was working on the fix since
December, and has posted it
early due to reports of
attacks...
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23.12.2005Vista SP1 serves up its own sets of problems
Every technology site is full of information regarding Vista SP1, even our own. But, not everyone is happy with the way it performs, for some,
entirely new problems have cropped up after installation.
While Vista SP1 will not fix existing compatibility problems
with older applications and hardware, it can improve the reliability of most systems but may introduce new complications.
The
Daytona Beach Journal Blog
reports in its test that one laptop was upgraded to Vista SP1 without problems but the test desktop reported that Vista was no longer valid after the
installation and wanted a new license key.
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19.12.2007Undo send email in Gmail
Many times we forget to add attachments, notice a spelling mistake or forgot to add something in the email. New in Google Labs is an add-on to your
account that can undo the email you just sent, with a limit of five seconds, allowing you to go back and re-edit the email you previously just sent.
Once the add-on is enabled under your Gmail settings, Labs and Undo Send, users will be promoted with an "Undo" button after sending an email,
giving them just enough time to prevent regrettable emails. If users opt to undo the email they had just sent, they will be taken back to the email
where edits can be made.
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20.03.2009Windows Vista Betas Show
Potential and Problems
Windows Vista shows a lot of
promise. With beta 2 of
Microsoft's much anticipated
operating system nearly ready
to be released to the public,
users will soon have the
ability to judge for
themselves how Microsoft's
next generation operating
system is coming along.
With WinHec next
week (which Neowin will be
attending), now seems to be a
good time to take an inventory
of where things stand with
Windows Vista.
As the article below makes
clear, Windows Vista is very
impressive but it also has
some serious problems that
Microsoft needs to address
prior to release. How serious
are the problems, read the
whole thing and decide for
yourself.
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20.05.2006Massive Failure Rate For Xbox 360 Exposed
Retailers are claiming that
Microsoft has had to handle a
failure rate of over 30% with
their Xbox 360 console. More
than 100 consumers have
written to SmartHouse
complaining of either poor
service from Microsoft or
total failure of their gaming
console. One consumer was even
given back a refurbished unit
in exchange for their original
Xbox console.
Several
months ago SmartHouse raised
the issue of potential
problems with the Xbox 360
after several readers wrote to
us complaining of persistent
failures. Even one of our
testing Xbox 360 systems that
we use to review software
failed and had to be returned
to Microsoft for repair. Other
consumers have complained of
sending off their Xbox for
repair only to get a different
refurbished unit back.
During the past few weeks
SmartHouse has received email
after email from Xbox 360
owners complaining of
problems. Ironically a lot of
the problems seem to appear
after 12 months of use.
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21.06.2007Google Labs: Turn your email into a Google Doc
Google has released another experimental feature from their Google Labs offerings, that allows you to turn an email into a Google Doc. Quite often
we might have lengthy email conversations that become tougher to manage going through each conversation. With this new lab feature, you can turn a
whole bunch of similar email conversations into a Google Document. You can turn on this new lab feature by going to the Gmail Labs tab under
Settings, select Enable next to Create a document and hit Save Changes at the bottom. Here is a good example below from my own email.
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19.12.2008Microsoft to Fix Critical Vista Flaw Early
Microsoft confirmed Sunday
that it would not wait until
April's "Patch
Tuesday" to release a fix
correcting a critical flaw in
Windows Animated Cursor
Handling, which affects most
supported versions of the
company's operating systems.
Instead, an update is coming
Tuesday...
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02.04.2007Whitehouse email offline
Late yesterday it was reported that the email system for the White House was offline and there was no estimated time until it would be back up.
"Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced the technical snafu at his 1:30 p.m. briefing, apologizing to the media for the e-mail silence this
afternoon." It appears that it was a server overload as the new administration was migrating their transition email over to the official White House
email servers. The outage affects both incoming and outgoing emails. The server being knocked offline is probably not a coincidence after the Obama
staff complained that the technology was archaic.
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27.01.2009Levono Constant Connect allows BlackBerry email syncing
Lenovo has recently come out with a new technology that allows their ThinkPad laptops to sync emails with BlackBerry phones. Sounds exciting and
innovative, right? Maybe not, but there's something rather unique about this new service; it's still able to operate even if the ThinkPad is
off. The technology works over BlueTooth, as Gizmodo reports, and will be instantaneous. No waiting for the email to push over to the BlackBerry or
vice versa, it'll happen the instant an email arrives. The email that this is based on has to be enterprise based, however.
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16.02.2009Windows Vista Interface Causes Problems For Consumers, Support Firm Says
Navigating Windows Vista's
Aero user interface is a big
problem for many consumers
learning Microsoft's
6-month-old operating system,
a technical support company
said Thursday.
Support.com<
/a>, which offers technical
support to consumers, said the
top three reasons people
called for Vista help were to
solve navigation problems,
device incompatibility, and
home networking issues.
While Vista is "a leap
forward in terms of usability
and functionality," it
requires consumers used to
working with older versions of
Windows to learn something
new, Anthony Rodio, chief
marketing officer for
Support.com, said in a
statement. "We know very well
that any major switch in
operating systems can
initially cause confusion and
problems for end-users," he
said. "Consumers often suffer
from frustrating issues that
prevent them from using their
computer for its intended use,
whether it's simply accessing
their e-mail system or
printing a document."..
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13.07.2007Microsoft Research tackles mobile touch-screen problem
Daniel Vogel, a Ph.D.
candidate at the University of
Toronto, and Patrick Baudisch,
a scientist at Microsoft
Research, have created a
technique designed to make it
easier to select items on a
mobile-phone screen with a
finger rather than a pointed
stylus. The Microsoft Research
project, called Shift,
automatically displays a
circular image with a small
"x" on the screen above
where a user places his
finger. By toggling the tip of
his finger, a user can move
the X to place it on top of
the item he wants to choose.
Lifting the finger from the
screen selects the item.
Shift builds on an
already developed technology
known as Offset Cursor, which
displays a cursor just above
the spot a user touches on the
screen. That allows users to
place their fingers below the
items they want to choose so
that they can see the items
rather than hiding them with
their fingers. Vogel and
Baudisch said Offset Cursor
has drawbacks, particularly
for users trying to choose an
icon near the edge of the
screen. Because Offset Cursor
displays the cursor above the
finger, it can't be used to
choose icons at the bottom of
the screen. Shift only
displays the image when
necessary, so if a user
touches a large item, Shift
doesn't pop up the circular
image.
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17.05.2007Vista SP1 Updaters Report Problems, Successes
Rarely has a service pack received as much attention as SP1 for Microsoft Relevant Products/Services's Windows Vista, officially released Tuesday.
And while some users are reporting smooth installation and better performance, many are reporting problems.
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19.03.2008Is Microsoft's Mojave Vista experiment backfiring with users?
Is a new marketing campaign what Vista really needs? The first stages of it -- already under way with the Mojave Experiment -- are certainly drawing
attention to Vista. But in ignoring Vista's problems, could the campaign also be backfiring?..
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01.08.2008Early Vista SP1 64-bit installs causing new problems?
An iTWire journo by the name of Alex
has found yet another Vista
SP1 issue to bitch about, this time it's the x64 version and early reports are pointing to several problems. Anything from the "Windows
Performance Rating" vanishing, to the poor souls Treo not being recognized through "Windows Mobile Center" after SP1 installation. There could be
many explanations for this happening: Either the guys laptop is so sucky that Vista did him a favor by simply hiding crap results, and his phone may
no longer sync to Mobile center because he has so few friends and contacts it just isn't worth it.
Vista may of done the guy a
favour.
Or Vista is indeed broke, and Microsoft need to sort it. Either way I am sick of all the ranting as of late, so much so that I will
be installing Windows Vista x64 SP1 just to annoy websites like iTWire,
InfoWorld and CNet (Staff bloggers) and all of
their readers to show them that any normal user can install Vista x64 SP1 and have everything work afterwards. Meanwhile a whambulance has been
dispatched to the above mentioned sites to pick up the whiney tossers.
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25.02.2008More server problems, forum downtime
Last night one of our apache
servers died, we don't know
why or what caused it and we
are still waiting for our
server admin to respond to an
email we sent.
Also
the forum started mass
doubling posts for almost
every submission, sometimes
triple posting a submission.
Again we aren't sure whats
causing that either. Marcel
has put count queries back on
the Master SQL database, which
means the load on our Master
is back to where it was last
week..
I'm not
really sure what we can do to
fix these problems, but we
have Dave and Marcel looking
into it.
The forum
is offline while Marcel does a
topic recount.. this takes
time and when thats complete
the forums will re-open. Later
today we should have the
second apache server back up..
Hopefully there will be
something in the logs that
tell us what went wrong
there.
I'd like to
apologise for our downtime.
Its very frustrating to me and
I know that our valued members
are getting annoyed at the
constant server problems. I
will be looking into getting
professional advice next week,
to see if we can resolve some
issues.
Thanks to
everyone for the continued
patience while we try to
resolve the issues.
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08.10.2006How to Connect Your Email Address to Your OpenID Account
OpenID is an excellent solution for establishing a single identity for all your online accounts, but many people haven’t even tried it yet. For
some, the concept of using a URL address for a login ID instead of the traditional email address is still completely foreign.
However,
Email to ID could be what the doctor ordered and what these creatures of habits
need. It could also be what OpenID needs in order to expedite wide-spread acceptance as the single sign on identity standard. You can now link your
email address (or several of them) to your OpenID and then use that email address (any of them) to log into any online service that supports it! The
beauty rests in the simplicity of it all. Best of all, it’s all free and easy to do.
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01.10.2008Spam accounts for nearly 95 per cent of email
Spam email accounted for between 90 and 95 per cent of all email in 2007, up from an estimated five per cent of email in 2001, according to a report
from web security company Barracuda Networks.
The report, which analysed more than one billion daily email messages sent to more than
50,000 users worldwide, also tracked the increasing complexity of spam techniques over the past several years. 2007 witnessed the majority of spammers
using identity obfuscation techniques, in which spammers send email from diverse sources throughout the internet. Other spamming trends also include
the increased the use of attachments, including as PDF files and other file formats.
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13.12.2007Early Vista SP1 64-bit installs causing new problems
Alex Zaharov-Reutt: Has the fallout already begun from Microsofts serious snafu of releasing Vista SP1 early to users of 64-bit Vista? Weve just
received a report that shows two new problems we havent heard of before, as we unofficially rename SP1 to ˜Snafu Pack 1.
Watch
out, Microsoft “ youre in serious danger of sending people over the edge. While Im happy with my own Vista installation, especially since a stack of
driver issues were sorted out earlier in 2007, Ive stayed well away from SP1, and based on the latest report, Im glad I did...
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