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Friday, September 7, 2007
* A new Twilight Zone: MS Knowledge Base
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* McAfee: Mobile malware coming to Windows near you
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A NEW TWILIGHT ZONE: MS KNOWLEDGE BASE
Best of the blogs: Perhaps it's some sort of secret tribal curse cast
upon him at his summer home off the Dark Continent, but Randall Kennedy
has been to hell, and back, and most recently was struck by a vertigo of
sorts. Thing is, we're talking Windows here folks, not Mauritius
natives, as in WGA hell, and then some. Specifically, he checked out
some Knowledge Base articles and asked for the x64 version of a patch.
"What happened next was straight out of the Twilight Zone," he writes in
this Enterprise Desktop post. That request for the hotfix, listed as...
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IBM launches a free syndicated content service, U.S. judge strikes down
part of the Patriot Act, Apple will issue iPhone buyers a $100 credit,
Microsoft to release five sets of security patches, and more
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MCAFEE: MOBILE MALWARE COMING TO WINDOWS NEAR YOU
Best of the blogs: Airborne, also called mobile, viruses have been around
for a while now but they've not quite taken flight yet. That could
change, though, at least according to a white paper that security vendor
McAfee put out highlighting a handful of issues with Microsoft's Windows
Mobile. Within, McAfee asserts that hackers will soon begin targeting
smartphones to the extent that all will likely be assaulted at some
point. "While the research paper fails to highlight any real
vulnerabilities in Windows Mobile, and there remain experts who doubt
that hackers will move aggressively to infiltrate smartphones, it
provides... ...
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