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Worm Breaks Speed Record from Discovery to Life
Tue Nov 9,10:51 AM ET
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A new computer worm emerged on Tuesday which broke the speed record from the announcement of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a full-blown virus that spreads in the wild.
The vulnerability was discovered and made public by two hackers with aliases "ned" and "SkyLined" on Friday, and only four days later a worm exploiting the weakness was developed and set loose, several virus-trackers reported.
Microsoft said the worm is a variant of MyDoom and that it was investigating the threat the worm poses.
Some anti-virus companies said the new worm was different from MyDoom because it spreads via weblinks and not e-mail attachments.
"People will receive an e-mail saying that their PayPal account has been credited or that they are invited to watch a webcam. When they click on the link, just by viewing a site it executes code and infects the computer," said technical consultant Graham Cluley at Sophos Anti-Virus.
Microsoft was expected to issue its monthly batch of security patches later on Tuesday, but the company could not immediately say if a patch for the new worm would be part of it.
However, the U.S. software giant said that consumers who had installed Service Pack 2 for Windows XP (news - web sites) were at a reduced risk.
The weakness in Internet Explorer is known as the IFRAME buffer overflow vulnerability.
Firefox how i love thee.
Amen to Firefox
Tabbed browsing ROCKS! You can chose to open any bookmark as a new tab, or if you have a menu, you can open ALL menu entires simultaniously in tabs. How cool is that?
Recently downloaded a weather extension that displays a current, the forecasted weather for today and the forecasted weather for tomorrow in the bottom right hand corner. I love it as a novelty.
Currently partly cloudy and 17 degrees celcius in Melbourne
I might have to make the change. ESPN.com for some reason locks my explorer and overall, the viruses are just too prevelant.
Damn it, someone convince me to make the switch.
How about this then....
IE sucks ass
Did that help.
Personally I'm partial to opera, although I have a copy of firefox on my comp for occasions when the opera browser doesn't render a page correctly.
I was using Opera until Firefox 1.0 came out. I love the tabs functions in Opera but too many pages did not load properly and Opera has serious problems with java. Firefox works much better and has some of the tabs browsing functions from Opera.
And for that odd page that won't load in Firefox (i.e. the video window of WOAI.com - are you reading this CyberBob?) I've just installed the ieview extension in Firefox so that when that happens Firefox will open the problematic page in IE.
Slomo, does that extension allow you to use the videos on WOAI.com? If so, can you link me to the extension.
I've been barking up the CyberBob/Mozilla tree for a while now.
Link to extension.
It's kind of a workaround:
When you click on the link to the video on the WOAI.com a new smaller window appear, while it is loading (before you get the error message) right click on it and select "View this page in IE" it will open Internet Explorer with the video in it.
I like being able to have multiple pages open up on start of firefox. That is, the ability to assign multiple pages to your "homepage". Thus all my daily reads load automatically on opening Firefox.
BTW..to do this ...go to tools > options > homepage and enter all the pages you want opened separated by a | ...for ex. www.spurstalk.com/forums|www.esnp.com|www.chubbychasers.com|www .lubeme.com|www.bandwagon.com
Special thanks to Duff for lending his start pages to use as example.
timvp YOU NEED TO SWITCH TO A MAC
Ducks are you on quack?
Ducks,
I need to add a dedicated DVD authoring machine to our production suite and I'm seriously thinking about running DVD Studio pro 3 on a Mac. Since I know very little about Apple Hardware (I'm meeting the local dealer on Monday) do you know what the minimum configuration/model would be appropriate? any idea about the price?
I do not need this machine to have any video input/output or even MPEG encoding capability, just a Gigabit LAN port.
ducks, if dude's gonna switch outta Windows it's gotta be to linux or freebsd, although using a powerpc cpu isn't a bad idea.
It's free and you can import all your settings from IE.Damn it, someone convince me to make the switch.
No reason not to try it.
plus it's not either/or...if you don't like it..just start IE...sometimes I have both open.
Okay, I took the plunge and downloaded it. So far, it looks nice. Smooth options and it seems faster.
Now what? What are the cool options?
This is a simple one but I like it.
Holding the control key and scrolling a wheel mouse let's you dynamically change the text size on web pages. It works much better than IE because it let's you change the size infinatly smaller or larger and works with almost any text on a web page where IE only worked on certain text on certain sites.
You can dump all of your personal info in one button click. Go to the menu pull down tools -> options -> privacy -> clear all. You can also dump cookies, history, saved passwords, cache, form data, and your download manager history either seperately or all together. you can save your passwords to individual sites or keep them from being saved. This way you can have your bank site info saved or not saved while your FSP password is still saved. This is hadny in dealing with mutliple websites that have different user names and passwords. It also let's you see what passwords you have stored if you choose to store them.
The download manager is handy since it lets you keep a list of recently dowloaded files. Then there is no more of that, "Damn! Where did I just d/l that porno pic!" You can open the download manager and open the files straight from there. You can set how long the files are kept on the download manager list, and when the list should be wiped clean.
The main benefits of Firefox are really an unseen ones. No more spyware! No more pop ups! You can surf through the grungiest of sites looking for that bootleg MS office copy or that video of Janet Jackson's nipple and be secure in the fact that your not d/ling some browser hijack or other web cooties.
Definetely faster...do some expeirmenting tim.
You can vote as often as you wish on NBA.com's All Star ballot as long as you clear your cookies in between votes (Tools - Options - Privacy - Cookie - Clear).
Thanks to atlfan25 for the tip!
LJ,
Tabbed browsing is the . That way you can have the entire day's ST.com threads open at one time, without having 85 little browser windows open at the bottom.
Microsoft is waiting way too long to drop the next version of IE. They want to wait until Longhorn but version 6 has been out for almost 4 years now.
That said, IE still owns a brutal majority of the market and that means web sites by and large will be designed with it in mind. I don't see that changing unless Microsoft totally drops the ball with IE 7.
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