Ways to Work Around Corrupt Icon on Control Panel
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By JAMES COATES, CHICAGO TRIBUNE  Q. I have acquired from my son the laptop he used during his last year of college and for a couple years after that. He did a lot of online gaming, watching videos, downloading stuff from the Internet etc. that I do not do.
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Microsoft Corp., a worldwide leader in operating systems and Internet technologies, announced that it has found a major flaw in Windows XP operating system that is related to the JPEG image format.
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Nearly 50 programs may be disrupted by XP's Service Pack.
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Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive.
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Update to "critical" Internet Explorer patch repairs a serious security flaw introduced by the original version.
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Flawed software code used by numerous Microsoft applications to render images mean that a specially constructed image file could hijack a computer or spread a virus.
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On the Mark: The blame game within IT can slow the resolution of problems reported by end users. But there are tools that can put a stop to all the finger-pointing, Mark Hall writes.
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Windows update doesn't play well with all applications, even Redmond's. Also: CNET Reviews on security work still to be done.
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Millions of computer users are at risk of attack because flaws in the way Windows handles some images.
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Apple has announced a programme to repair certain 15in PowerBooks whose screens have been found to show faint white spots. The 15in PowerBook G4 Display Repair Extension Program will provide free repairs for
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If you have spyware installed on your computer system and you update your operating system with the latest Windows XP Service pack 2 (SP2) update, your computer could possibly freeze.
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Stop us if you've heard this before Security experts warn a new, unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer might be used to spread malware. A flaw in Microsoft's Direct Animation Path (daxctle.ocx) ActiveX control, rated as critical by Secunia and other security watchers, has spawned proof of concept code but has not yet become the subject of widespread, hostile attack. Memory corruption is possible even on a fully patched Windows XP system.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - CA Inc. caused some headaches this week after its antivirus software inadvertently flagged part of the Windows OS as malware. The SANS Internet Storm CenterÂ reported the problem Friday saying that an overnight update to CA's eTrust Antivirus signatures had caused the software to flag a security-related process in Windows as malicious. The faulty update caused some Windows 2003 servers to crash and become unusable, SANS said. The problem was that eTrust Antivirus was mistakenly flagging the Windows Lsass.exe process, said Bob Gordon, a CA spokesman. "CA quickly discovered and fixed an issue which temporarily caused some customers to detect a problem in their Lsass.exe files," he said in an e-mail. According to Gordon, it took CA less than seven hours to fix the mix-up. The problem was introduced in the 30.3.3054 update, released at 2:53 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) and fixed in the 30.3.3056 update, which was issued at 9:34 a.m. EST.Â CA's latest updatesÂ  are online. The Lsass.exe process is part of Windows' security mechanism. So users who had set their eTrust Antivirus to automatically remove malicious software may have found that their systems crashed and were unable to boot up Windows once Lsass.exe was removed. CA offers online guidance for users who have been experiencing crashes as a result of the buggy update. Antivirus software like CA's uses digital fingerprints, called signatures, to identify malicious software. In this case, eTrust Antivirus apparently mistook Lsass.exe for the Win32/Lassrv.B virus. It is not unheard of for signature files to mistakenly identify legitimate software as malware, but it is remarkable that CA's software made the mistake with a well-known Windows component, according to Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at SANS. CA should have been able to detect the problem in its quality-assurance testing, he said. The mixup apparently did not disrupt a large number of users, but it still reflects poorly on vendors like CA, Ullrich said. "It's another loss in trust toward the antivirus business," he said. "It tells you that the antivirus vendors don't do the testing."
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Collateral damage A faulty signature update to CA's antivirus software created headaches for sys admins last week after the software falsely identified a Windows 2003 component as malware.â¦
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Update fixes crashes caused by incompatibility with hidden advertising app.
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Here's how to create NetBoot and NetInstall images using System Image Utility.
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Adobe Repairs Reader, Acrobat Flaws Information Week