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Symantec’s Ghost Possesses PowerQuest DeployCenter Tools
Symantec Corp. has released its much anticipated Symantec Ghost Solution Suite, which combines Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition, the imaging component of the DeployCenter Library and Symantec Client Migration. The IT suite concentrates the tools to roll out Windows and applications, migrate data and user settings, and retire PCs. Resellers are praising the notion of the…
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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. Just days after research outfit Immunity Inc. issued an advisory, Redmond confirmed that the WINS vulnerability could make it possible for an attacker to take control of a WINS server…
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Failed Windows XP Upgrade Downs 60,000 UK Gov’t PCs
Most of the desktop computers in the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions were paralyzed for four days on Monday, when a failed upgrade took them offline. The outage, covering 75 percent to 80 percent of the DWP’s 80,000 PCs, is one of the largest in the UK government’s not entirely impressive IT history. And…
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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 in mid-2005 to replace SP5 as the final security patch for the operating system. According to a message posted on Microsoft’s Windows 2000 site, “The Update Rollup will contain all…
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Monks’ Online Fruitcake Ordeal Shows Need to Meet Promises
I could hear the frustration in his voice as Brother Barnabas described the year’s chaos in trying to upgrade his Web site so that it could handle more orders. A year ago, this Cistercian monk at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Va., was trying to find better ways to earn money for his highly regarded…
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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 a warning from a security research firm. The flaw, which Secunia rates as “highly critical,” has been reported in Winamp versions 5.05 and 5.06. Prior versions also may be affected.…
