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12.344.2008 - FreeBSD 7.1 RC1



View FreeBSD related news. FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. It is derived from BSD UNIX, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development.
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12.344.2008 - K-Lite Codec Pack 4.3.8 Beta



View Kazaa-Lite related news. K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats.
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12.344.2008 - Seagate To Run On 100 Per Cent Renewable Energy



View Seagate-Technology related news. SPRINGTOWN, Northern Ireland - December 9, 2008 - Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) has today announced a decision which will dramatically reduce its carbon footprint in Derry. The company has switched from traditional electricity supply to environmentally friendly wind power, supplied by Airtricity, Ireland’s leading renewable energy company. Airtricity specialises in the development of onshore and offshore wind farms and currently has 24 wind farms in operation throughout Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland.
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12.344.2008 - Symantec Delivers High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware Environments



View Symantec related news. CUPERTINO, Calif. - Dec. 9, 2008 - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced collaboration with VMware to deliver enhanced high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions for VMware environments. The initiative includes: cooperative support through the Technical Support Alliance Network (TSANet) for mutual customers leveraging Symantec’s Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) for VMware ESX in VMware environments; integration between VCS and VMware Infrastructure to deliver complementary HA/DR solutions; and enhancements to VCS that enable HA/DR for VMware vCenter.
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12.344.2008 - Seagate Awards $20,000 In Grants To Local Science Teachers



View Seagate-Technology related news. December 9, 2008 - Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) has awarded more than $20,000 in grants to 12 science teachers in the St. Vrain (SVSD) and Boulder Valley School Districts (BVSD). The grants were awarded for programs or projects that bring science to life in the classroom through hands-on applications of scientific principles. Elementary, middle- and high-school science teachers were eligible to apply for the grants.
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12.344.2008 - Roxio Launches Easy VHS to DVD



View SonicSolutions related news. Novato, California (December 9, 2008) - Roxio®, a division of Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today announced the immediate availability of Roxio Easy VHS to DVD, a combination of software and hardware that enables users to quickly digitize analog recordings stored on VHS tapes. Users simply attach the included hardware to their high-speed USB 2.0 port, then capture from virtually any analog video or audio source. S-Video and composite-video inputs enable full-resolution DVD recording from VCRs, VCR/DVD combo players, and analog camcorders including Hi8 and V8 models. Roxio's latest consumer application, Roxio Easy VHS to DVD, is available direct from Roxio at www.roxio.com for $59.99 and will be introduced in retail stores worldwide in January.
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12.344.2008 - Intel to Challenge Decision by Korea Fair Trade Commission



View Intel-Press related news. Intel Corporation today issued the following statement in response to the final written opinion from the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC).
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12.344.2008 - NVIDIA Adds OpenCL To Its Industry Leading GPU Computing Toolkit



View NVIDIA related news. SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008—SINGAPORE—DECEMBER 9 2008—NVIDIA Corporation today announced its full support for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from the Khronos Group.
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12.344.2008 - MS08-070 - Critical: Vulnerabilities in Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Extended Files (ActiveX Controls) Could Allow Remote Code Execution (932349)



View Microsoft related news. Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves five privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in the ActiveX controls for the Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Extended Files. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user browsed a Web site that contains specially crafted content. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
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12.344.2008 - MS08-071 – Critical: Vulnerabilities in GDI Could Allow Remote Code Execution (956802)



View Microsoft related news. Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in GDI. Exploitation of either of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted WMF image file. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
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12.344.2008 - MS08-072 – Critical: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957173)



View Microsoft related news. Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves eight privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Outlook that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) file. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
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12.344.2008 - MS08-073 - Critical: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (958215)



View Microsoft related news. Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
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12.344.2008 - MS08-074 – Critical: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (959070)



View Microsoft related news. Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
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12.344.2008 - MS08-075 – Critical: Vulnerabilities in Windows Search Could Allow Remote Code Execution (959349)



View Microsoft related news. Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Windows Search. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens and saves a specially crafted saved-search file within Windows Explorer or if a user clicks a specially crafted search URL. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
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12.344.2008 - MS08-076 – Important: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution (959807)



View Microsoft related news. Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in the following Windows Media components: Windows Media Player, Windows Media Format Runtime, and Windows Media Services. The most severe vulnerability could allow remote code execution. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
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12.344.2008 - MS08-077 - Important: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Could Cause Elevation of Privilege (957175)



View Microsoft related news. Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker bypasses authentication by browsing to an administrative URL on a SharePoint site. A successful attack leading to elevation of privilege could result in denial of service or information disclosure.
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12.344.2008 - NOD32 Virus Definitions - v.3680 (20081209)



View NOD32 related news. NOD32 Antivirus System provides well balanced, state-of-the-art protection against threats endangering your PC and enterprise systems running various platforms from Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP, through a number of UNIX/Linux, Novell, MS DOS operating systems to Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Domino and other mail servers.
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12.344.2008 - Update AVG - AVI 270.9.16/ 1840



View AVG related news. Added detection of new variant of Worm/Autoit.IDS, new variants of trojans SHeur2.FMD, Dropper.Generic_c.ANC, PSW.Banker5.AQE, Dropper.Agent.LBJ, PSW.Generic6.ATBX.
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12.344.2008 - NOD32 Virus Definitions - v.3679 (20081209)



View NOD32 related news. NOD32 Antivirus System provides well balanced, state-of-the-art protection against threats endangering your PC and enterprise systems running various platforms from Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP, through a number of UNIX/Linux, Novell, MS DOS operating systems to Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Domino and other mail servers.
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12.344.2008 - McAfee Virus Definitions - DAT Version 5459



View McAfee related news. Virus definition, or DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that our anti-virus products use to protect your computer against thousands of computer viruses and other potentially harmful software in circulation. Hundreds of new threats appear each month. Every week, we release new DAT files. We also release new DAT files when any threat is assessed by AVERT to have a medium or higher risk.
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12.344.2008 - Industry and Security News - The Push for Data Encryption



View Lavasoft-Press related news. 33 million records. That’s the amount of records on consumers that have been exposed so far in 2008, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, which tracks breaches reported by U.S. organizations. And that count may only be the tip of the iceberg; without a federal requirement for organizations to quantify the amount of consumers affected [...]
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12.344.2008 - Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool v2.5 (December 2008) (KB890830)



View Microsoft related news. Microsoft has released the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool to help remove specific, prevalent malicious software from computers that are running Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP, or Microsoft Windows 2000. The Malicious Software Removal Tool supersedes all virus-cleaner tools that were previously released by Microsoft. You can download the Malicious Software Removal Tool from the Microsoft Download Center. You can also run an online version of the tool from the Malicious Software Removal Tool Web site on Microsoft.com. To run the Malicious Software Removal Tool from either location, you must log on to the computer by using an account that is a member of the Administrators group. If you are running Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows 2000, you can also run the Malicious Software Removal Tool from the Microsoft Update Web site or by using the Microsoft Update Automatic Updates functionality. If you have chosen not to use Microsoft Update, and you are running Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1), you may run the Malicious Software Removal Tool from the Windows Update Web site or by using the Windows Update Automatic Updates functionality.
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12.344.2008 - How To Be a Rich and Thin PC



View Intel-Press related news. Until not too long ago, IT professionals could pick rich clients or thin clients. Each had its pros and cons in terms of costs, application performance and data security and manageability. Lately, however, a number of new client-server models have been emerging that take advantage of such technologies as streaming and virtualization for obtaining the benefits of both rich and thin clients. Intel's expert is this area is Mike Ferron-Jones, director of Dynamic Virtual Client Technology. He'll be giving a seminar on these "dynamic virtual clients," including some that have emerged in just the past few months, in a BrightTALK webcast, on Wednesday, December 10 from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PST.
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12.344.2008 - NOD32 Virus Definitions - v.3677 (20081209)



View NOD32 related news. NOD32 Antivirus System provides well balanced, state-of-the-art protection against threats endangering your PC and enterprise systems running various platforms from Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP, through a number of UNIX/Linux, Novell, MS DOS operating systems to Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Domino and other mail servers.
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12.344.2008 - Update AVG - AVI 270.9.15/ 1839



View AVG related news. Added detection of new variant of Worm/Autoit.IDL, Worm/Autoit.ICF, new variants of trojans Generic12.WTI, SHeur2.FLR, PSW.OnlineGames.BIUW, SHeur2.FLQ.
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12.344.2008 - Google Chrome 0.4.154.33 Beta



View Google-Chrome related news. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
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12.344.2008 - Trend Micro Virus Definitions - 5.697.00



View TrendMicro related news. The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses. It is guaranteed to have passed a series of critical tests to ensure that customers get optimum protection from the latest virus threats.
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12.344.2008 - NOD32 Virus Definitions - v.3676 (20081209)



View NOD32 related news. NOD32 Antivirus System provides well balanced, state-of-the-art protection against threats endangering your PC and enterprise systems running various platforms from Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP, through a number of UNIX/Linux, Novell, MS DOS operating systems to Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Domino and other mail servers.
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12.343.2008 - Slysoft, Inc.: Game Jackal Pro 3.1.2.0



View GameJackal related news. Game Jackal Pro is the ultimate must have killer app for the PC gamer! If you, like most gamers, find it annoying looking for and inserting the CD-ROM for your favorite game each time you play it, then Game Jackal Pro is for you.
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12.343.2008 - CUDA Cleans Up At SuperComputing Industry Awards



View NVIDIA related news. SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 8 2008—Every year at the Supercomputing (SC) convention (http://sc08.supercomputing.org), the organizing committee and media partners give awards for outstanding high performance computing (HPC) research and achievements.
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