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[/url]Reuters - Cellular phones do not pose short-term health risks, but it remains too soon to say whether they can cause brain cancer or whether children face greater risks than adults, British scientists said on Wednesday. Link To Original Article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This important security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution when a user accepts a webcam or video chat invitation from an attacker. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the affected system. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights Link To Original Article

There's some more juicy info in the NPD's recent look at Office and Vista sales. One of the most intriguing bits is where customers are getting their copies of Office. It turns out a whole lot of them are buying Office directly from Microsoft. "Microsoft is now the ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Welcome back to the great Office Server smorgasbord. There’ll be a related review soon covering a couple of open source answers to SharePoint, including Liferay and Plone. And come October, you’ll be seeing a fully graded review of the release versions of Office Communications Server and Exchange Server 2007. Link To Original Article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This important security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability. A vulnerability exists in Windows Services for UNIX 3.0, Windows Services for UNIX 3.5, and Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications where running certain setuid binary files could Link To Original Article

Microsoft on Tuesday released its September 2007 security bulletin, which includes four updates: One is designated as "critical" by the software giant; three are deemed "important," and one previously announced patch was dropped. Microsoft decided at the last minute not to patch Sharepoint Server in this month's release. The ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Software AG plans to unveil details of Version 7.1 of the webMethods business process management suite on Wednesday, along with a new enterprise service bus (ESB) and a supply chain performance optimization tool. Link To Original Article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This important security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted RPT file. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. Link To Original Article

Editor's note: This story was updated at 10:16 a.m. PDT. WASHINGTON--A group of state prosecutors led by California on Tuesday told a federal judge that they plan to file a request that Microsoft antitrust oversight be extended until 2012. Right now, most portions of the settlement reached with the Bush administration and state prosecutors in 2002 ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Yahoo will sell display advertising for Bebo, the first such deal Yahoo has secured with a*social networking site, the companies said on Wednesday. Link To Original Article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Agent in the way that it handles certain specially crafted URLs. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on the affected system. Link To Original Article

SAN FRANCISCO--In 45 days, Intel will open its first high-volume facility for building chips that use a 45-nanometer manufacturing process. A dime sits atop a wafer of processors built with Intel's 45-nanometer manufacturing process. (Credit: Intel) The facility, called Fab 32, is a new one built in Chandler, Ariz., ... Link To Original Article

Learn about and download the latest computer security updates for September 2007. Read tips on protecting your computer by using anti-spyware and anti-spam programs. Link To Original Article

Plus: Golden nano-artwork unveiled. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. Link To Original Article

Rather than rely on customers actually wanting to buy its products (and for the long term), Microsoft is apparently intent on forcing them to do so. In a move reported by eWeek, Microsoft is forcing customers into buying its "Software Assurance." What does this mean? ... Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - The comparisons to God of War couldn't have been more accurate. PlayStation 3 release Heavenly Sword boasts a blade-wielding protagonist, gripping action and spectacular cinematography. Created by game studio Ninja Theory, Heavenly Sword tells the tale of Nariko, a passionate heroine who brandishes the Heavenly Sword to protect it from an invading king. Link To Original Article

I am trying to defragment a 160 GByte hard drive on my Windows 2003 Server. It has about 22% free space, about 50 1+GByte files, and about 1,000 40+MByte files. When I start to defragment, it very quickly gets to 3%. After 8+ hours, I'm still at 3%. Is this normal? How long is this going to take? Note: I'm doing this while the server is running. I really can't take the server down for more than a couple of hours to run defrag. -- Mike Schumann

Hi! I have several users connected through terminal services to a windows server 2003 64 bit. When a user sends some document to printer and tries to close session it hangs for several minutes. After searching, i found some articles (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923357/en-us) pointing this issue. This occurs because there is a process (Splwow64.exe) that remains in memory for several minutes. This process is used to convert between 32 bit and 64 bit applications. This process remains in memory in order to increase system performance and unloads from memory after a specified time from the end of the last job. We can specify this time adding or ed…

Hi Can anyone help with possible reasons for the above backup failure. I have looked at the Event Log and have also been to on line help. Shares are available on the source and destination. The space on the destination of several multiples of the space being backed up. The security system is Microsoft One Care The system runs for about 20 seconds and then crashes Roger Stenson

Hello, Quick question about my Windows CE device, I know you can use it to remote desktop to a xp machine (successfully done that) - but i want to remote desktop from that to a Windows CE device. Or faiing that is there a another tool that I can use to get access / control to a CE device via an XP machine (or any other windows workstation/server)? Many thanks in Advance. Chris

Hello, Quick question about my Windows CE device, I know you can use it to remote desktop to a xp machine (successfully done that) - but i want to remote desktop from that to a Windows CE device. Or faiing that is there a another tool that I can use to get access / control to a CE device via an XP machine (or any other windows workstation/server)? Many thanks in Advance. Chris

Hello-- I have recently converted .Net 1.1 Web App to 2.0. There are approx. 25 Users that use the Application some are Citrix-ing and VPN-ing from a distance (many states away). The App is running on a Win2Ksp4 Server, and using a Sql Server 2K sp4 (and Reporting Services sp2). This also means that our WebApp running on 2.0, will sometimes in a dynamically generated link provide a link to a Reporting Services report in the 1.1 framework. Ever since the conversion we periodically enter a "Stuck" State ... What we currently know about the "Stuck" state: - If caught early it seems that non-WebServer Services are responsive. - When Stuck, the system exhibits …

Hello-- I have recently converted .Net 1.1 Web App to 2.0. There are approx. 25 Users that use the Application some are Citrix-ing and VPN-ing from a distance (many states away). The App is running on a Win2Ksp4 Server, and using a Sql Server 2K sp4 (and Reporting Services sp2). This also means that our WebApp running on 2.0, will sometimes in a dynamically generated link provide a link to a Reporting Services report in the 1.1 framework. Ever since the conversion we periodically enter a "Stuck" State ... What we currently know about the "Stuck" state: - If caught early it seems that non-WebServer Services are responsive. - When Stuck, the system exhibits …

We are trying to improve DFSR performance over a long fat pipe... East coast to west coast 45Mbps circuit with 63ms RTT. To be able to fill this pipe with the 4 threads DFSR gives us, we need to adjust some TCP windows. We have done so, and need windows larger than 64K to make this work, so we enabled the Tcp1323Opts = 3 in the registry. We have Confirmed these settings on both servers, and rebooted (many times) and using Network Monitor we are checking the TCP headers to make sure things are getting set properly. We now see the TimeStamps option, but we never see a scale value for the TCP Receive window. The window seems to always be 64K. This is t…

I am getting the same error when trying to install the Bitlocker update in Ultimate. Not getting prompted for a password, it just fails. "eric_c" wrote: > code 80092004 displays after being prompted for Admin password > > full repro: run windows update, after "checking for updates" is completed > and install comes up. Asks to enter pw returns to "check for updates" vs. > installing so I click, then - I click on install updates and get the error > code 80092004 > -- > Eric C