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IE Exploit Attacks Another Piece of ActiveX
Using Internet Explorer hasn’t gotten any safer in the past few days as a Dutch security hacker, Jelmer Kuperus, pointed out yet another unblocked security problem in the popular Web browser. The latest exploit, an attack on a Windows ActiveX component called Shell.Application, is similar to the Download.Ject attack, also called JS.Scob.Trojan. In that exploit,…
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Users Balk at Software Assurance
Microsoft is facing pushback from volume licensees whose three-year Licensing 6.0 and Software Assurance plans are about to expire. Many of the Redmond, Wash., company’s volume license customers, whose contracts have expired or are set to expire, are questioning the value they got from the programs and whether they should renew. At the same time,…
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Enterprises Slow to Dump IE
The calls to dump Internet Explorer may be getting louder, but they are falling largely on deaf ears among enterprise users. IT managers and users say that while the rash of security flaws associated with IE has drawn new attention to its vulnerabilities and has led some individuals to switch browsers, enterprises are reluctant to…
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Wi-Fi Becomes A Commodity
It’s official – WiFi has reached commodity status. On Tuesday, Conexant Systems Inc. preannounced lower earnings for the cureent quarter, based on an influx of low-cost WiFi chips produced by Taiwan manufacturers. Conexant executives said that the price of 802.11g components is now on the order of 802.11b chips in certain markets. Although the WiFi…
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Oracle 10g: Top Goodies and Gotchas
Oracle 10g recently went under eWEEK Labs’ microscope and came out with flying colors, earning an Analyst’s Choice recommendation for its ability to take workload off the shoulders of DBAs. That’s no surprise. True, as Technical Analyst Michael Caton and Technology Editor Peter Coffee write in their wrap-up of the 10g tests, prospective users are…
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Dell Reseller Offers Lindows-Loaded PCs
A Dell VAR on Tuesday began offering OptiPlex desktops for sale in Italy with a Linux operating system from Lindows. Although the announcement was positioned as an official Dell release, a spokesman from Dell Inc.’s headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, said the program was not offered with Dell’s approval. Questar, one of Dell’s Italian VARs,…
