Larry Seltzer

Sometimes its really sad to see a product die. And then theres Windows NT 4. Yes, it seemed like a good product when it came out, and maybe it was. But Windows 2000 was a much, much better one, and its been out for about five years now. Customers have had enough time to extricate […]

Internet research firm Netcraft is reporting that most Web sites targeted by an anti-spammer campaign by Lycos Europe are being effectively taken down. The campaign uses a screen saver program distributed by Lycos Europe on its MakeLoveNotSpam.com site. As of Thursday morning the site itself was inaccessible. According to anti-virus vendor F-Secure, at least one […]

Microsoft has issued a patch, out of its normal security patch cycle, for a critical bug in Internet Explorer versions from 6.0 up to but not including Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). According to the advisory issued by Microsoft, the bug could allow remote code execution on an affected system. The bug was publicly […]

Some observers are concerned that new rules governing the transfer of Internet domains between domain registrars that went into effect on Nov. 12 will facilitate theft of those domains and “slamming” by registrars. The new rules, originally announced by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on July 12, were “approved unanimously by […]

Comparative testing of anti-virus products is complicated, and very few people outside of the vendors do it. The most popular measure of performance is a list of viruses called the Wild List, and some popular tests and certifications are based on it. But, unlike viruses, the wild list updates very slowly. In fact, everything in […]

In a move that was totally expected, if a little early, Yahoo has announced that it will put its money where its mouth is and start checking Yahoo Mail with its DomainKeys system. /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to read more about Yahoos DomainKeys announcement. The company had told me that it would do so by the end […]

A new release of the Windows version of the Skype VOIP program fixes a bug that could allow a remote attacker to compromise a Skype users computer. The new version, 1.0.0.100, can be downloaded from the Skype Web site. An advisory from Secunia based on the bug report from Skype calls the bug “highly critical.” […]

Sometimes I just cant believe peoples lack of perspective, and the best current example is the resistance to adopting Windows XP Service Pack 2. For a very long, long time now, long before SP2 was released, its been known that as a direct result of solving security problems in Windows it would cause application problems. […]

Sobig hit the world on Aug. 18, 2003, and was an immediate success. The sixth variant, Sobig.F, may have been the most successful endemic mass-mailer worm. Estimates of the damages it caused were in the tens of millions of dollars, and the reward posted for the author was similarly fat. Anonymous authors have released a […]

Anti-virus companies are reporting a worm that spreads via a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is not present in Windows XP Service Pack 2, but in all earlier versions of Internet Explorer 6, and no patch is available. It involves a buffer overflow triggered by an IFRAME or EMBED tag, which has an […]