Archive for July, 2006
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Messenger Plus! Live, the popular Messenger Plus addon for Windows Live Messenger (WLM 8) is finally (and officially) here.
Grab it now!
Download Messenger Plus! Live 4.01.240
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
A worm is targeting MySpace users, compromising their "About me" pages and infecting visitors to them, Symantec has warned.
When a logged-in MySpace user goes to another member's "About me" page affected by the ACTS.Spaceflash worm, they are quietly redirected to a URL that holds a malicious Macromedia Flash file, the security company said in an advisory on Spaceflash Tuesday. That file, in turn, will replace the visitor's own "About me" page with one that is compromised.
"It's an annoyance, at this point, for users, but the capability exists where it can lead to malicious actions and steal sensitive information," ...
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Reports are coming in from Asia that the Skype protocol has been hacked. If accurate, this means that users can access the Skype VOIP network without using the Skype client - calls could be made through third party software directly to and from Skype users. A Skype-compatible client may be available by the end of July.
The reports are also suggesting that the new software will not support Skype’s super node architecture, meaning that users will not have the resource drain that often comes with running Skype. While this is great for the users of the hack, it could destabilize, ...
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
Intel is set to announce its long awaited Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors tonight, July 14th, at 12:01AM EST. Initially announced at the Spring Intel Developer Forum 2006, Intel’s Conroe was demonstrated beating out AMD’s fastest processors from high end Athlon 64 X2’s to the gaming and enthusiast oriented Athlon 64 FX. Intel also previously launched the Core 2 architecture based Woodcrest Xeon 5110, 5120, 5130, 5140, 5150 and 5160 models. With the new Core 2 architecture Intel is moving away from the megahertz war and moving towards higher instructions-per-clock performance and improved power efficiency instead. ...
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
Poizon Green is releasing their debut album on 27th July 2006.
This self titled album is going to be released in the banner of G-series. It has been recorded and mixed at Sound Machine.
Ref: http://www.poizongreen.net/forumnews-id18.html
For more info: www.PoizonGreen.net
Forum Discussion: Poizon Green (Releasing 27th July)
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Microsoft has announced to offer Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 for FREE.
Download Microsoft Virtual PC 2004
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspx
They also announced a change to the Vista license related to virtualization: Customers who deploy Windows Vista Enterprise have the ability to install up to four (4) copies of the operating system in a virtual machine for a single user on a single device. Even better, nothing in the license requires that Microsoft Virtualization technologies be used - if you want to use a competing product as your Virtualization solution, you still get the four extra licenses for use with VMs.
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikekol/archive/2006/07/12/662511.aspx
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Nine months after announcing they would make their instant messaging services interoperate, Yahoo and Microsoft have done it.
The companies are set to release on Thursday a limited beta test of a service that will enable users of Windows Live Messenger (the next generation of MSN Messenger) and Yahoo Messenger with Voice to connect with each other.
The move creates a global community of nearly 350 million accounts, the companies said. The beta service is being launched globally in 15 localized languages.
"It's the first-ever bridge between two global instant messaging services," Blake Irving, corporate vice president in Microsoft's Windows ...
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Sixteen year-old Adriaan Graas from The Netherlands discovered an XSS (cross site scripting) exploit in Hotmail. The exploit allows hackers to steal cookies from their victims and obtain full control over their inboxes without the need of knowing their passwords.
Details of the exploit can be found here:
http://adriaangraas.feetback.nl/browse.php?vf=/security/exploits/hotmail/how-to.php
More than a week later of his informing it to Microsoft, the billion-dollar company still hasn't fixed the flaw.
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Microsoft Private Folder and gives you the ability to protect folders with passwords to make sure that only you can access them.
Steps to bypass windows genuine validation (wga) and install microsoft private folder:
1. Download Orca.msi and install it.
2. Download MS Private Folder.
Note: If you can’t download because of the WGA in Windows Update, go here.
3. Open the download MSI ( MSPF10ENU.msi ) file in Orca.
4. In the left pane, select InstallUISequence.
5. Select the Action WelcomeForm
6. Double-Click the Condition, and change this:
Installed=”" AND NOT RESUME
to this:
Installed=”" AND RESUME
7. Save the MSI file and close Orca.
8. Run the installer.
9. Done, now you ...
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Download Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0792:
Download Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0792
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