Buggy ActiveX controls menace Yahoo! Messenger
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Webcam! library! peril! ActiveX controls - so often the source of Internet Explorer flaws - are the font of two newly discovered flaws in Yahoo! Messenger.â¦
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Symantec snafu now sorted Faulty signature updates on Wednesday resulted in Symantec's anti-virus packages falsely identifying that Yahoo! mail was contaminated by malware.â¦
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Over on our sister site, AjaxDeveloper.org today, there's a note about the latest release of Joshua Eichorn's HTML_AJAX PEAR package - version 0.3.1.    HTML_AJAX 0.3.1 is out, lots of good bug fixes, and iframe fallback support for Opera and IE with activeX turned off.  More details are available on the release notes on the wiki.  Feature wise were getting close to beta release, its mainly getting a browser compatability test suite added in and doing some basic API review. If you have experience supporting an API without breaking bc, it would be great to get your feedback on HTML_AJAX.    In the release notes, there's mention of several bugs with Internet Explorer implementations and some yet unsolved problems (IE memory leaks and table support in Konqueror). Check out the rest of the notes for more of the bugs and issues they've taken care of...
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Accessing the beta version of Yahoo Mail on a PC with Symantec's updated antivirus software incorrectly causes alarm bells to go off.
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Swiss cheese IM client menaced by umpteenth zero day bug Trouble came in pairs for instant messenger users this week with the disclosure of unpatched flaws in chat software from both AOL and Yahoo!â¦
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Security researchers find a "highly critical" security flaw in Oracle's JInitiator ActiveX control.
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Help! Flaws in an ActiveX component incorporated in many technical support support packages create a risk of hacking attacks, security watchers warn.â¦
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Tycho:  I don't know whose fault it is exactly, mine or theirs, but I won't be installing Vista anytime soon.  I would like some crazy shit to happen when I minimize something don't get me wrong.  I want my windows to go Waja-wajow(!) is possible.  But if there's a great reason to "trade horses midstream" or whatever the going metaphor is I haven't discovered it.
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Rogue banner ad pulled Microsoft has admitted its Windows Live Messenger client displayed banner ads for several days punting an application blacklisted as a security risk.â¦
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Yahoo issues patch for a highly critical security flaw just a week after it issued another Yahoo IM security update.
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Users of Yahoo Inc.'s Messenger software should patch the program as soon as possible, security vendors said today, because hackers are now using exploits that target the instant messaging application.
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U.S. CERT warns of critical ActiveX bugs in QuickBooks online service; Intuit says developers fixed the problems months ago.
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Plus: More Office holes, and a major Adobe problem that affects all browsers.
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First, Yahoo was notified that its Messenger IM client was vulnerable to attack. Then, a researcher fingered two ActiveX controls as flawed and posted exploit code.
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No ETA yet on Yahoo Messenger for Vista public beta, which is three months late.
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Dubbed MyDoom.AH by security firms, this latest variant in the MyDoom family of worms is exploiting the recently publicised vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer&#39;s (IE) IFRAME buffer overflow.
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Nasty ActiveExploit Security flaws in an ActiveX control used in MySpace upload images onto the social networking sites leave users open to attack. Facebook users may also be at risk.â¦