Software

Thunderbird 3.1.5 released

October 20, 2010

* Several fixes to improve performance, stability and security. MFSA 2010-72 Insecure Diffie-Hellman key exchange MFSA 2010-71 Unsafe library loading vulnerabilities MFSA 2010-70 SSL wildcard certificate matching IP addresses MFSA 2010-69 Cross-site information disclosure via modal calls MFSA 2010-67 Dangling pointer vulnerability in LookupGetterOrSetter MFSA 2010-66 Use-after-free error in nsBarProp MFSA 2010-65 Buffer overflow and [...]

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Zone Alarm Scare Tactic

September 21, 2010

As reported by users at the Zone Alarm forums. http://forums.zonealarm.com/showthread.php?t=75332&page=6 http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/20/2037233/ZoneAlarm-Employs-Scare-Tactics-Against-Its-Users

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Thunderbird 3.1.4 Released

September 16, 2010

Thunderbird 3.1.4 provides several fixes to improve stability and improve the user interface. http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.1.4/releasenotes/ Manual Download

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Thunderbird 3.1.3 Released

September 8, 2010

Thunderbird 3.1.3 provides improvement to the user interface and fixes several stability/security issues. MFSA 2010-63 Information leak via XMLHttpRequest statusText MFSA 2010-62 Copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop into designMode document allows XSS MFSA 2010-61 UTF-7 XSS by overriding document charset using type attribute MFSA 2010-59 SJOW creates scope chains ending in outer object MFSA 2010-58 Crash on [...]

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Eset Virus Signature Database Update 5418 may cause issues

September 2, 2010

Eset Knowledgebase 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 [...]

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McAfee botched antivirus update shuts down corporate customers

April 21, 2010

SANS Internet Storm Center. Published: 2010-04-21 McAfee’s “DAT” file version 5958 is causing widespread problems with Windows XP SP3. The affected systems will enter a reboot loop and loose all network access. We have individual reports of other versions of Windows being affected as well. However, only particular configurations of these versions appear affected. The [...]

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Updater for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

April 12, 2010

Upcoming Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3.2 and 8.2.2 to be Delivered by New Updater Adobe Reader Blog Steve Gottwals On Tuesday, April 13, 2010, as part of our quarterly update, we will activate the new updater for all users needing Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3.2 and 8.2.2 for Windows and Macintosh. As of yesterday, April [...]

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BitDefender: Faulty Update Disables 64-bit Windows Systems

March 22, 2010

BitDefender PressCenter Faulty Update for 64 bit Operating Systems 22 March 2010 We understand your disappointment , we have solved the problem for many of our users already and we are continuing to work relentlessly to rectify the problem for all users still affected. Yesterday around 8:20am PST, an update that we were working on [...]

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Thunderbird 3.0 available

December 13, 2009

The latest release of Thunderbird has a different look and new features. Tabs If you like Firefox’s tabbed browsing, you’re going to love tabbed email. Tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Perhaps you’re responding to an email and need to refer back to an earlier [...]

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ESET Smart Security and Windows 7 upgrades

August 3, 2009

ESET Technical Alert Microsoft has notified software developers that some of the technologies used by security, backup, disk utility and network management programs are incompatible with the Windows Vista to Windows 7 upgrade process. This is a direct result of Microsoft’s design decisions and impacts most antivirus solutions that scan network data. ESET has verified [...]

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