The Podcast.net Directory

The Podcast.net Directory:
“Podcast.net is a directory of RSS feeds that feature podcasts sorted by category. Like Yahoo, but for podcasts.”

http://www.podcaster.net/

Build Your Own Windows Media Center PC

Build Your Own Windows Media Center PC :
“In the past year, a number of interesting, pre-configured "media PCs" have arrived on the scene. The boutique PC makers, such as VoodooPC with its Voodoo Vibe and Alienware's DHS series, offer examples of the craft. But even mainstream PC manufacturers have jumped on the bandwagon—Sony with its VAIO RA-810G and HP with its Digital Entertainment Center.

All of them are certainly fine products in their own right, but it seemed to us that we could build something equivalent, or maybe even a little better. At the top of our list was the ability to seamlessly integrate this rig into our home-theater system. Secondarily, it had to look like it belonged in a rack with A/V components. Finally, the system had to support HDTV viewing and recording.… ”

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1742236,00.asp

E-Card Holiday Virus Packs Ugly Punch

E-Card Holiday Virus Packs Ugly Punch:
“A new virus strain masquerading as electronic Christmas cards is accounting for one in every 10 e-mails hitting in-boxes, security experts warned Wednesday.

The W32/Zafi-D worm, which originated in Hungary, is using mass-mailing and P2P (peer-to-peer) techniques to squirm through in-boxes and slow network traffic to a crawl.

The worm, which poses as a Christmas greeting, has the ability to replicate in as many as 19 languages, which makes it a "very serious threat" to computer users worldwide, said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos Inc.

Cluley told eWEEK.com the Zafi-D mutant accounts for 75 percent of all virus reports at coming into the company's monitoring stations in the past 24 hours.

A spokeswoman for e-mail security services firm MessageLabs said the company had intercepted more than 1 million copies of Zafi-D since it first started squirming Tuesday.…”

According to a Sophos advisory, the worm arrives with the subject line "Merry Christmas," "Buon Natale!" or "Joyeux Noel!," depending on the location of the recipient.

The body of the e-mail contains a "Happy Hollydays" greeting in green text with a yellow emoticon. The virus arrives as an attachment with the following extensions: ZIP, CMD, PIF, BAT or COM.

Once executed, Zafi-D copies itself to the Windows system folder with the filename "Norton Update.exe." It then creates a number of files in the Windows system folder with filenames consisting of eight random characters and a DLL extension.…

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1742085,00.asp

How to identity SIMMs

How to identity SIMMs:
“You’ve found some old SIMMs in a desk drawer or extracted them from an unwanted PC. Are they fit only for the bin, or are they suitable for use in a user’s PC? Guy Clapperton shows how to find out.”

http://www.techsupportalert.com/search/h0831.pdf

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:wM4uSCKnGdsJ:www.techsupportalert.com/search/h0831.pdf identify 72 pin SIMM&hl=en

WindowsXP-Drivers.com

WindowsXP-Drivers.com:
“This site maintains listings of windows xp driver files available on the web, organized by company.”

Looking for hardware device drivers for XP can really be a problem if you have a computer that came with a different operating system and now you're upgrading to XP. Here's one of the largest sources of XP drivers.

http://www.windowsxp-drivers.com/

Browser injection flaws affect multiple browsers and platforms

Browser injection flaws affect multiple browsers and platforms:
“Two newly-revealed Web browser vulnerabilities, a window-injection flaw and a frame-injection flaw, could allow attackers to steal sensitive information. Unfortunately, IT pros will have a hard time mitigating the threats.

Secunia Research has announced a newly discovered a window-injection vulnerability that can let attackers inject information into an open browser window. The most important concern is that this vulnerability can be used to spoof secure sites.

This is especially dangerous because it doesn't just affect Microsoft's Internet Explorer (CAN-2004-1155), but also KDE Konqueror (CAN-2004-1158), Opera (CAN-2004-1157), Mozilla FireFox (CAN-2004-1156), and even Apple Safari (CAN-2004-1122). Those are the links to SecurityTracker.com reports.

Some initial reports caused confusion over which browsers are affected and whether there is more than one very similar threat, but there are definitely two different vulnerabilities that pose similar dangers.

Making things more difficult for IT professionals, there was also a similar-sounding frame-injection vulnerability reported in June 2004. As a result, some IT pros may think they have already addressed this new threat. Secunia Research reported that the frame-injection vulnerability also affects most brands and versions of Internet browsers. That earlier vulnerability also allows a remote attacker to cause the browser window to display arbitrary content and can therefore be used to spoof sites.

Secunia lists different Mitre vulnerability codes for the frame-injection threat in addition to those listed above and this was a different vulnerability. The following links relate to the earlier frame-injection vulnerability, which has similar dangers: Internet Explorer (CAN-2004-0719); Opera (CAN-2004-0717); Mozilla, FireFox, and Netscape (CAN-2004-0718); Safari (CAN-2004-0720); and KDE Konquerer (CAN-2004-0721).

Secunia has made available a demonstration site to help you determine if your browser version is vulnerable. Go here for the test and more details about the new threat.”

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