Tag: BUGS

Microsoft is always under attack. This time around it's Powerpoint, again. Just a few days after patching bugs, PowerPoint was hit again. A Microsoft Security Program Manager was made aware of a proof of concept code that was affecting Microsoft Office 2003 PowerPoint, as well as PowerPoint 2000, and PowerPoint 2002. This hole allows for hackers to potentially execute code on a user's computer by ...

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Mozilla has released a security update to Firefox, version 1.5.0.5. TechWeb is reporting that this update fixes 13 vulnerabilities, including 8 that have been deemed critical by Mozilla. For those keeping score: all 8 of these critical bugs are errors or vulnerabilities that have been found in JavaScript. Firefox 1.5.x should automatically download this update, but users can still manually obtain ...

One of the many Windows Vista features Microsoft is eagerly touting is its networking code, which has been re-built from the ground up and promises superior performance to XP networking. Considering all the legacy cruft in Microsoft's products, fresh new code seems like something the be happy about, but according to CNet, Symantec feels otherwise. According to the networking company, scrapping the ...

I was sure we wouldn't see a fix for this one until May's Patch Tuesday, but Microsoft has announced that the fix for the troublesome patch released two weeks ago will be available tomorrow, April 25, halfway through its usual patch cycle. Microsoft also has a knowledgebase article on the issue which basically says "it's the fault of this old third party software" and gives a few ...

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday last week meant a sigh of relief for sysadmins dreading the nasty Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered last month, but any relief was short-lived as the round of patches has apparently led to a plague of bugs and incompatibilities. Last week's patches are causing "causing system hangs, Windows crashes and the appearance of strange dialog boxes" and ...

Slashdot's interviews are always most interesting when they're with unexpected subjects, like Mike Nash, Microsoft's VP of Security, and the guy at whom about half of Slashdot's endless parade of anti-Microsoft jokes are indirectly aimed. It's a decent interview, and Nash's answers are fairly canded and relatively free of PR-speak. He retreads the same ground a couple of times, though, and the ...

So as to make up for yesterday's excellent-but-incomplete Time Waster, today I'm offering up a game from the excellent Orisinal collection: Bugs. Bugs is a serene little Flash game the object of which is to scare away, but not kill, the colorful bugs. You control the little girl with your mouse. Holding it down will make a bubble grow around her, and letting it go will make her jump. The bigger ...