Archive for May 12th, 2008

Filed Under (Windows, security) by Telix on May-12-2008

Latest Microsoft Thursday security bulletin patches three critical bulletins for Microsoft Office and Windows and a moderate denial of service vulnerability for the company’s security software. A critical remote code execution vulnerability primarily affecting Microsoft Office (Word) and another critical remote code execution flaw in Publisher, a critical Jet database engine issue that affects Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 and a denial of service vulnerability in Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Antigen, Microsoft Windows Defender, Microsoft Forefront Security.



Filed Under (Internet, Software) by Telix on May-12-2008

Mozilla team has noticed that a Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 is carrying malware. As Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wrote Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 contains inserted code to load remote content resulting with virus infection. Everyone who downloaded the Vietnamese language pack from February 18, 2008 got an infected copy. So, if you downloaded that particular language pack run immediate virus check of your computer.