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Security experts warn of possible worm hitting Vista
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| A group of top security analysts and researchers say the latest Windows security
| hole, for which there is no patch, leaves hundreds of millions of Windows Vista PCs
| wide open for infection by a Conficker-like Internet worm.
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http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/09/security-experts-warn-of-possible-worm-hitting-vista.html
Microsoft flaw could open PCs to Conficker-style attack
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| Microsoft has just raised a red flag about a recently discovered security flaw in
| Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 PCs for which no patch yet exists. This affects
| all Vista PCs used in the home and workplace, and computer servers running Windows
| Server 2008 operating system.
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http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/09/microsoft-flaw-could-open-pcs-to-confickerstyle-attack.html
Be sure to get Microsoft Office updates
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| This week includes the second Tuesday of the month -- "PatchTuesday," as it's come to
| be known -- the day when Microsoft issues "patches" to fix the latest security and
| operational flaws that have been found in its products. Most prudent computer users,
| one way or another, access these patches through the Windows Update Web site.
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http://www.normantranscript.com/localbusiness/local_story_255021544
Attackers target Microsoft IIS; new SMB flaw discovered
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1367362,00.html
Microsoft Fixes Eight Security Flaws
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/09/microsoft_fixes_eight_security.html
Recent:
Windows 7 is 'insecure', warns F-Secure
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| The new operating system's Windows Explorer file manager still misleads users
| about the true extension of a file, said Patrik Runald, chief research
| advisor at Helsinki-based F-Secure.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/cybercrime/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsid=14648
Experts: Windows 7 at risk from legacy flaw
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| For example, malicious code writers could name a 'virus.exe' file
| as 'virus.txt.exe' or 'virus.jpg.exe', he said. Windows Explorer would then
| hide the .exe part of the filename, meaning that the user would only
| see 'virus.txt' or 'virus.jpg'. Additionally, virus writers would change the
| icon displayed with the file in Windows Explorer so it looked like the icon
| of a text file or an image. Users might then click on the disguised file.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39648558,00.htm
Win7 can still be exploited by hackers
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| "People typically look at the icon to know what the file is," Runald told
| ComputerWorldUK. "If it looks like a Word doc or a PDF file, there's an
| implicit trust in it, and users are more likely to click on those files, even
| if they are actually an executable."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137041/win7-exploited-hackers
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