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Security Now! Notes for Episode #20 A serious new remotely exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows' image processing code. UNTIL THIS IS REPAIRED BY MICROSOFT, ANY ATTEMPT TO DISPLAY A MALICIOUS IMAGE IN WINDOWS COULD INSTALL MALICIOUS SOFTWARE INTO THE COMPUTER. This is a so-called "0-day vulnerability" because exploits for the vulnerability appeared before any updates or patches were available. All versions of Windows from Windows 98 through ME, NT, 2000, XP, and 2003 are known to be vulnerable, and a large and rapidly growing number of malicious exploits (57 at last count) are already circulating in the wild. They are being actively used to install malware and Trojans into user's machines. Viruses and worms are expected to appear shortly. Although NOT a complete solution, Microsoft has recommended temporarily disabling the automatic display of some images by the operating system and web browser. This can be done, as detailed below, by "unregistering" the "SHIMGVW.DLL" Windows DLL. THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE SOLUTION, but it significantly lowers the risk from this vulnerability from web surfing. Do not open any "WMF" — Windows Metafiles — you receive by eMail, and reports are that other file types may also be dangerous. Anti-virus companies have responded to this, so update your anti-virus signature files for updated protection. You should IMMEDIATELY disable Windows' use of this vulnerable DLL until patches from Microsoft are available.

Wired 14.01: How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet Looks like growing your warm market and belly-to-belly networking needs to be the backbone of all marketing as a backup to PPC marketing for the foreseeable future.

Sky High - The Official DVD Website I am so glad that I got this DVD for Christmas. I know Disney doesn't need any promotion from me, but I find it interesting that the movie industry still goes by box office returns on films like this when families with kids like us hardly every think about going to the movie theaters any more. It is too dangerous, we'd have to be superheros to be impervious to the crime surrounding our local theaters. The only film we went to as a family this year was Narnia and it was during the middle of the day on a work day so that we didn't have to face the crime. Why am I glad that we got this DVD? I find it interesting that we didn't even know it was at the theaters. We saw the ads on Disney TV stations and my kids really wanted it. The reason we are glad we got it: my kids have watched it an average of 3 times a day. Thanks Disney for making a solid movie that didn't challenge our beliefs and our straight sexuality. We are fundamental Christians and it is growing harder and harder to find movies from any studio to say that about especially Disney.

2006 Google Prediction I believe that the rise of community bookmarking sites like delicious and digg and wink and .... ad nauseum, Google will implement a social bookmarking capability to their search engine which will allow for even more focused advertising as well as keep google fans from using agregated search or meta search engines. Google will have to evolve into a meta search engine. They will and they'll keep it clean and as transparent as they have until now. With Google's warchest of IPO funds going to two guy garage start-ups, I am certain that they will buy up at least one of these social sites owned by two entrepreneurs in shorts in their garage and not some fully dressed corporation with VC money already. I love how Google operates.

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