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Went and saw Lord of the Rings this
afternoon, and I must say it's a really good movie. Even though I don't like the
genre (fantasy and wizards and stuff) I still throughly enjoyed the
movie.
Two pieces of Windows news today. One is a new worm to look
out for. The second, and much more shocking one, is a Huge security
hole discovered in Windows XP and that also affects Windows ME and some
Windows 98 computers. Due to some buffer overflows in how Windows XP treats
raw sockets, crackers could take control of your computer and do whatever
they wanted to do with it. The truly shocking (or non-shocking if you know how
MS works) is that this hole was discovered 5 weeks ago, but Microsoft only made
it public today. Security through obscurity at it's best, which relies on
hopeing (praying?) that no one else discovers the hole before MS announces it.
Because millions of people are out there unprotected and they have no idea that
they're vulnerable. So if you're one of those affected, get the security patch as soon as possible.
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