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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This important security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted Microsoft Office Publisher 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. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability. Link To Original Article

Last week OPTi announced a patent infringement lawsuit against a bevy of chip companies: AMD, Atmel, Broadcom, Renesas, Silicon Storage Technology, SMSC, STMicroelectronics, and Via Technologies. At issue are two patents for "Compact ISA-Bus" technology. OPTi had recently sued Apple and AMD over three patents for "Predictive Snooping" technology used ... Link To Original Article

DENVER--Confirming what many had expected, Microsoft announced on Tuesday that the next version of its server operating system, Windows Server 2008, won't formally launch until next year. Microsoft said it will launch the product, which it has said will be finalized before the end of the year, at an ... Link To Original Article

FT.com - Rexam (NASDAQ:REXMY), the world's largest manufacturer of beverage cans, with an output of 55bn units a year, is an enthusiastic user of SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. It has it installed in 52 of its 90 factories worldwide. Too enthusiastic, some might say. Link To Original Article

Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This critical update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and two privately reported vulnerabilities in addition to other security issues identified during the course of the investigation. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution i Link To Original Article

Dave Orton came over to Advanced Micro Devices when it acquired ATI Technologies last year, but his tenure at the company will have been brief. AMD announced Tuesday that Orton, the former CEO of ATI and an executive vice president at AMD, is stepping down at the end of this ... Link To Original Article

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

It has been my theory for a little while that sometime in the near future, we are going to see the downfall of physical discs for watching movies. Check out this and other original content on CNET's blog network. Link To Original Article

DENVER--Microsoft on Tuesday detailed the pricing for its Dynamics Live CRM product, the hosted version of its customer relationship management (CRM) software. The professional version of the software will list for $45 per user per month, though during 2008 it will sell for $39 per user per month. The higher-end ... Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it will hold firm on pricing for its Xbox 360 game console, defying widespread expectations that it would respond to a price cut by rival Sony Corp. (6758.T) for the PlayStation 3. Link To Original Article

Device Manager shows that a Network adapter, Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter is not working properly. Should I be concerned?? Jeff

Device Manager shows that a Network adapter, Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter is not working properly. Should I be concerned?? Jeff

I can open a terminal services session to a Windows Server 2003. Then from that session I can log into the file system on another Server 2000. No problem. However if I use the console of the Server 2003 directly, and attempt to log into the Server 2000 it fails with invalid login attempt. Both theses servers are on the same domain, and report to a third Server 2003 as the domain controller / active directory. Any idea why access is authenticated through terminal services, but blocked when direct access is attempted? Regards, Andyh

I can open a terminal services session to a Windows Server 2003. Then from that session I can log into the file system on another Server 2000. No problem. However if I use the console of the Server 2003 directly, and attempt to log into the Server 2000 it fails with invalid login attempt. Both theses servers are on the same domain, and report to a third Server 2003 as the domain controller / active directory. Any idea why access is authenticated through terminal services, but blocked when direct access is attempted? Regards, Andyh

I regularly RDP via VPN from my home XP Pro to my office XP Pro. I use VB6 on my office PC and sometimes need to use it with my administrative account so I use RunAs via the right-click method. When I do RunAs of VB6, my explorer locks up with some broken graphics on the start bar. (I place the start bar on the left side of the display.) I get out of this by running task manager on the remote system with ctrl-alt-end, terminating explorer, and starting explorer again with the run option on the task manager. Up to this time, I had found that after a reboot, the problem did not come back right away. That is, the runas functioned as expected. Tonight I ra…

I regularly RDP via VPN from my home XP Pro to my office XP Pro. I use VB6 on my office PC and sometimes need to use it with my administrative account so I use RunAs via the right-click method. When I do RunAs of VB6, my explorer locks up with some broken graphics on the start bar. (I place the start bar on the left side of the display.) I get out of this by running task manager on the remote system with ctrl-alt-end, terminating explorer, and starting explorer again with the run option on the task manager. Up to this time, I had found that after a reboot, the problem did not come back right away. That is, the runas functioned as expected. Tonight…

I thought this issue was related to just IE but today I realize, the issue affects my XP system in general, not just XP. I thought it was only IE because I surf mostly on the pc. I have a dual core pc, with 1 gig ram, IE 7, all patches, have and up to date antivirus and firewall and run XP Pro. While surfing the net, I find that over time, I can't open a link in a new tab. I try to open it and nothing happens. No errors whatsoever. When this first happens, I can get around it by closing one tab and then opening the one I want. Over time this doesn't work and if I have more then one copy of IE open, if I close one copy of IE, then I can open another tab. …

I thought this issue was related to just IE but today I realize, the issue affects my XP system in general, not just XP. I thought it was only IE because I surf mostly on the pc. I have a dual core pc, with 1 gig ram, IE 7, all patches, have and up to date antivirus and firewall and run XP Pro. While surfing the net, I find that over time, I can't open a link in a new tab. I try to open it and nothing happens. No errors whatsoever. When this first happens, I can get around it by closing one tab and then opening the one I want. Over time this doesn't work and if I have more then one copy of IE open, if I close one copy of IE, then I can open anothe…

Hello all, I keep having this error (The service did not respond to the start or control request in atimely fashion) when I try to start Microsoft ISA Server control service. This machine is my Internet Proxy Server and is running on windows server 2003 with service pack 2 and Microsoft ISA server 2000 service pack 2. Any solution to this will be appreciated. Thanks Goddae

Hello all, I keep having this error (The service did not respond to the start or control request in atimely fashion) when I try to start Microsoft ISA Server control service. This machine is my Internet Proxy Server and is running on windows server 2003 with service pack 2 and Microsoft ISA server 2000 service pack 2. Any solution to this will be appreciated. Thanks Goddae

Hi, I would like to install Windows Server 2003 with unattend.txt method in machin Dell PowerEdge 2950. Is is possible to create some partition on the machine with Unattend.txt ? Thks

Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit MSI.dll version 4.0.6000.16386 dated 02/11/2006 10:46 size 2,095,616 bytes I manually run 'Windows Update', for Windows and other products from Microsoft update, at least once a week on a Wednesday, and at other times during the week. A number of times over the last few months, usually when there are a number of updates part way through the installation process i get a popup message stating 'Windows Modules Installer stopped working and was closed'. The installation process hangs at this point and i have to restart the computer. Running the update again finds the previous update which usually installs the second time arou…

A server at a customers site slows down a couple of times a day. (Windows 2003 sp2 -sp2 installed hoping to resolve the problem, so the problem already exists when only sp1 was installed-) in the beginning of this problem I noticed the following error message in the servers logfile: _______________________ Windows saved user DOMEIN\user registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use. This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalSer…

A server at a customers site slows down a couple of times a day. (Windows 2003 sp2 -sp2 installed hoping to resolve the problem, so the problem already exists when only sp1 was installed-) in the beginning of this problem I noticed the following error message in the servers logfile: _______________________ Windows saved user DOMEIN\user registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use. This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the L…

With Vista I have a blind spot about folder views always being how I don't want them. I know that this topic has come up ad nauseam, but if someone can summarise the topic clearly and patiently I would be most grateful. In particular: 1. What types of folder template are there in Windows Vista? 2. How do I tell (other than guessing from its appearance) which template a particular folder is using? 3. If I think a folder should be using a different template how do I change it? 4. When I set up a new folder (for example by right-clicking in Windows Explorer) which template does it default to? 5. Can I directly edit, save (and lock down - see 6) the propert…