The top 10 weirdest USB drives ever

These are really weird! The top 10 weirdest USB drives ever

Windows XP Tips And Tricks

If you aren't upgrading to Windows Vista yet, these Windows XP Tips And Tricks might be just what you need to keep your system running at top speed.

Workaround needed for IE hole by Brian Livingston

Microsoft acknowledged this week a new weakness that allows hacked Web sites to infect PCs merely by displaying specific images in the Internet Explorer browser.

The Redmond company hasn't promised to issue a patch until the company's next regular Patch Tuesday on Oct. 10.

Until then, individual Windows users can protect themselves against the flaw by deregistering vgx.dll. This DLL file is used by IE to render images that are based on Vector Markup Language (VML).

Microsoft recommends that users click Start, Run, paste the following line into the input box, and click OK:

regsvr32 -u "%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll

After Microsoft releases a patch for the problem, you can easily reregister the DLL by repeating the procedure without the -u switch:

regsvr32 "%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VGX\vgx.dll

Read the full story and more at Windows Secrets

MS Advisory: Beware Unexpected PowerPoint Files

The company's advisory comes less than a week after virus hunters discovered that a previously undocumented flaw in Microsoft PowerPoint was being exploited to plant a keystroke logger on infected Windows systems.

Read the full story by by Ryan Naraine at EWeek.com
MS Advisory: Beware Unexpected PowerPoint Files

Berkeley Sea Scouts case appealed to U.S. Supreme Court

The Pacific Legal Foundation announced Tuesday that it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision by the California Supreme Court that affirmed the city of Berkeley's right to deny the Berkeley Sea Scouts free berthing privileges at its marina.

Read the full story by by Martin Snapp of the CONTRA COSTA TIMES in the Mercury News

US CERT Alert

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And the dance continues.