Security Fix: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006
Spyware Found Exploiting Winamp Flaw
On Monday, Security Fix warned readers about a dangerous security hole found in the Winamp media-player software that could be used by the bad guys to slip dangerous programs onto your machine. Today, anti-spyware company Sunbelt Software posted details about...
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February 3, 2006; 4:01 PM ET |
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Virus Naming Still a Mess
Each time a new or uniquely dangerous virus or worm surfaces online, the major anti-virus companies trip over themselves to come up with their own pet names for the bugs. In some ways, this is a quaint holdover from an...
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February 3, 2006; 10:55 AM ET |
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Firefox Update Mends 8 Security Flaws
Mozilla has issued an new version of its Firefox Web browser to fix multiple security holes, at least one of which appears fairly serious. The new release updates version 1.5; if you're using this version (check and see by selecting...
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February 2, 2006; 10:56 AM ET |
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Research: Buggy, Flawed 'ActiveX' Controls Pervasive
Microsoft takes its share of lumps from security experts for building software that constantly requires security updates, but dozens of major corporations may also be guilty of piling their own security problems into Windows machines. New data collected by...
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January 31, 2006; 11:38 AM ET |
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Be Careful With Winamp Links
Update, 4:28 p.m. ET: Nullsoft has released a new version of Winamp (v. 5.13) that apparently fixes this vulnerability. If you are using Winamp as your media player, be sure to download and install this important update. Here's what I...
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January 30, 2006; 2:01 PM ET |
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