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Microsoft Preps Five Windows Patches
Microsoft’s monthly patch day for December will produce security updates for five vulnerabilities affecting Windows users, the company said Thursday. In an advance notice, the…
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Spyware: The Next Real Threat
NEW YORK—Spyware will replace the mass-mailing worm as the biggest nuisance—and security threat—facing businesses in 2005. That’s the chilling assessment from Roger Thompson, director of…
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No XP SP2 Security Fixes for Win2K: Instead An SP2-Less ‘Rollup’
Microsoft’s decision to scrap plans for Windows 2000 Service Pack 5 has effectively killed all hopes that security enhancements built into Windows XP SP2 will…
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Microsoft Confirms WINS Flaw
Microsoft Corp. has issued a workaround for a newly discovered security issue in WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) that could lead to malicious code execution.…
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Microsoft Scraps Plans for Windows 2000 SP5
Microsoft Corp. has scrapped plans for Windows 2000 Service Pack 5. Instead, the software giant announced that a Windows 2000 Update Rollup will be released…
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Winamp Flaw Allows Attacks
Users of America Online Inc.’s Winamp media player are at risk of remote code execution attacks because of a flaw in the software, according to…
