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I’m not a Microsoft-basher; I use their products productively virtually every day of my life. Excel is my workhorse, Word my constant companion for nearly a decade, PowerPoint my standard for presentations, Visio Professional a powerful tool in my arsenal, and I rely on Outlook to keep track of notes, emails, contacts, tasks, and my calendar. I have also been using Internet Explorer since about 1996, when it came pre-loaded on a computer I bought. I found it to be adequate, and certainly seemed to be on the cutting edge (anybody remember “push technology”?). But increasingly over time it came...

Is the Bugmenot.Com website down? I've been trying to access it for a couple of days but it won't come up. For those of you unfamiliar with Bugmenot.Com, it is a GREAT resource if you want to avoid subscribing to newspapers since that takes up a bunch of time plus you end up receiving Spam from those newspapers in the future. At Bugmenot.Com you simply enter the URL of the newspaper you want to access and Bugmenot.Com supplies you with a username and password so you can avoid subscribing to the newspapers. Perhaps the newspapers have ganged up on Bugmenot.Com...

Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox User Interface Spoofing Vulnerability Secunia Advisory: SA12188    Release Date: 2004-07-30 Critical: Moderately critical Impact: Spoofing Where: From remote Software: Mozilla 0.xMozilla 1.0Mozilla 1.1Mozilla 1.2Mozilla 1.3Mozilla 1.4Mozilla 1.5Mozilla 1.6Mozilla 1.7.xMozilla Firefox 0.x Choose a product and view comprehensive vulnerability statistics and all Secunia advisories affecting it. Description:A vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox, allowing malicious websites to spoof the user interface. The problem is that Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox don't restrict websites from including arbitrary, remote XUL (XML User Interface Language) files. This can be exploited to "hijack" most of the user...

So I'm reduced to summarizing the article, because the tools at eWeek apparently don't want their material posted here. Long story short: Mozilla and Firefox users on Windows XP (and possibly Windows 2000) have a hole that potentially allows remote code execution, due to the way Mozilla/Firefox passes certain protocols to the operating system. This apparently only affects Windows versions - users can get the full story here, and then download the ShellBlock extension here, which closes the hole.

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