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Virus Signature Database Update 5418, released on September 2, 2010 at 6:00 AM PST may cause an “ekrn.exe” error. Other reported issues include ekrn crashing, systems not responding and threat notifications with blank name fields.

At 8:00 AM PST, Virus Signature Database update 5419 was released In most cases, restarting your computer and updating your ESET security product will resolve the issues you are experiencing.

If the issue persists after restarting and updating your ESET security product, then restart again. If you still experience issues after restarting twice, uninstall and reinstall your ESET security product.

Business Customers
If you cannot restart your system, update your ESET security product to Virus Signature Database update 5419 and run “net start ekrn” from the Command Line to start ekrn.exe. If you receive a message that ekrn started successfully, your issue should be resolved.

If you are using a mirror server, click Tools ? Server options ? Updates and deselect the Provide updates via internal http server option. Click Update now and ensure that it updates to 5419. Then re-select the Provide updates via internal http server option and click OK.

If you continue to receive this error or experience other issues related to this update, and you are currently running virus signature update 5419, download and run this utility: http://download.eset.com/special/eset_update_fix.exe on all workstations.

For customers running virus signature update 5417 or 5418, run the utility and then manually update workstations.

If you continue to experience problems after completing all steps above, contact ESET Customer Care.

http://www.eset.com/support/contact

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Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance

by certifiedbug on August 18, 2010

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Yahoo! Search Blog

As we continue to work toward implementing the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance, we’re reaching some additional significant milestones that we want to share with you today.

Later this week, we will begin transitioning the back-end technology for Yahoo! Search in the U.S. and Canada (English) over to the Microsoft platform, and will post an update when the organic search transition is complete for both Web and mobile searches. Keep an eye out for the “Powered by Bing” indicator at the bottom of our search results page, which will indicate that you are viewing listings from Microsoft. And of course, as we’ve stated before, you’ll continue to enjoy the same enhanced Yahoo! experience that surrounds the listings themselves – such as rich results, Search Assist suggestions, site filters, related topic suggestions, and more to come.

http://www.ysearchblog.com/2010/08/17/latest-on-the-yahoo-and-microsoft-search-alliance/

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Firefox 3.6.8 Released

July 24, 2010

Firefox 3.6.8 fixes issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6 and a single stability issue affecting some pages containing plugins. If you do not receive an update notice when using the program, select “Check for Updates” from the Help menu. Manual Download

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Firefox 3.6.7 Released

July 20, 2010

Firefox 3.6.7 fixes several security and stability issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6: If you do not receive an update notice when using the program, select “Check for Updates” from the Help menu. Manual Download

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Internet Explorer 8, Understanding Group Policy Settings

July 14, 2010

The SpringBoard Series Blog This weeks post is from Carl Luberti, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer with the Internet Explorer team. To start, I wanted to address that Internet Explorer 8 has over 1300 Group Policy entries that can be configured, which is great for keeping your environment managed and safe. That can also create [...]

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Firefox: Two Add-on security vulnerabilities

July 14, 2010

Mozilla Security Announcement. Mozilla Sniffer An add-on called “Mozilla Sniffer” was uploaded on June 6th to addons.mozilla.org. It was discovered that this add-on contains code that intercepts login data submitted to any website, and sends this data to a remote location. Upon discovery on July 12th, the add-on was disabled and added to the blocklist, [...]

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Firefox 3.6.6 Released

June 27, 2010

Hot on the heels of Firefox 3.6.4 Mozilla skips 3.6.5 and releases 3.6.6 ahead of schedule to address Flash plug-in crashes and performance slowdowns. Manual Download

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Firefox 3.6.4 Released

June 24, 2010

Firefox 3.6.4 fixes several security issues. Four critical, two moderate, one low. MFSA 2010-33 User tracking across sites using Math.random() MFSA 2010-32 Content-Disposition: attachment ignored if Content-Type: multipart also present MFSA 2010-31 focus() behavior can be used to inject or steal keystrokes MFSA 2010-30 Integer Overflow in XSLT Node Sorting MFSA 2010-29 Heap buffer overflow [...]

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Russinovich-The Case of the Random IE Crash

June 3, 2010

Interesting sleuthing by Mark, Technical Fellow in the Platform and Services Division at Microsoft. While I long for the day when I no longer experience the effects of buggy software, there’s something rewarding about solving my own troubleshooting cases. In the process, I often come up with new techniques to add to my bag of [...]

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Opera releases v.10.53 to patch extremely severe vulnerability

May 6, 2010

This vulnerability affects Opera for Windows and Mac. “Multiple asynchronous calls to a script that modifies the document contents can cause Opera to reference an uninitialized value, which may lead to a crash. To inject code, additional techniques will have to be employed.” http://www.opera.com/support/new2opera/ http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/953/

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