The company recommends setting the Internet zone security setting to “high” and using access control lists to disable Ole32db.dll to provide the most effective protection against an attack.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10122203-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

As expected world+dog are on the case, having a go at it. Unfortunately, the VHD isn’t a bootable disk, but some users have fiddled enough with the virtual disk image and the 6801 build install to create a fully installable ISO.

Torrent chat is reporting users have overcome the non-boot disk issue by using the installer for the 6801 build, and the jury-rigged ISOs are replacing the original VHD on torrent sites as we speak.

Windows 7 Build 6956 torrented - The INQUIRER

Tribune files for bankruptcy protection | U.S. | Reuters

Buy one, get one free: it’s a familiar sales pitch for happy-hour cocktails or last season’s fashions, but now a Belgian car dealer is luring customers with just that line.

Antwerp-based Cardoen, which sells about 10,000 new and nearly new cars per year, started the promotion at the end of November and said it would run until December 15.

During that period, customers can choose from a range of new, full-price cars — the cheapest being a 22,800 euro ($28,930) Hyundai van — and then pick a second free vehicle from a selection that goes up to 14,000 euros.

“People have been coming in from all over Belgium and abroad,” Cardoen’s Commercial Director Ivo Willems said, adding that Cardoen’s eight showrooms had seen more than 10 times their usual number of visitors since the promotion began.

Car dealer offers second car for free | Oddly Enough | Reuters

In a ceremony attended by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo told the press that his 16,000-square-foot ceiling artwork reminded him of “an image of the world dripping toward the sky” — but it reminded critics of money slipping out of relief coffers.

“In Spain there’s a controversy because they took money out of the foreign aid budget — took money from starving children in Africa — and spent it on colorful stalactites,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of U.N. Watch.

FOXNews.com - Foreign Aid Money Spent on $23 Million Art Ceiling at U.N. Human Rights Council - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

“It’s the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape,” said David Fisher, the tower’s architect.

“This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime,” he added.

The innovative, 420-metre (1,378-foot) building’s apartments would spin a full 360 degrees, at voice command, around a central column by means of 79 giant power-generating wind turbines located between each floor.

http://www.artkerala.com/node/4863

and this…

and this…

During those times it has been up pages take several minutes to load and replies can take up to 10 minutes.

Time outs are also an issue for most members.

Check out the suggestion area of their forums…that is if it’s still there.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com

The Microsoft Malware Protection Center recently released some data on how the removal tool performed this month: FakeSecSen was removed from 994,061 machines. That number isn’t the highest Microsoft has recorded before, and the number of removals depends on which malware Microsoft adds each month and how widespread it is.

Microsoft cleans fake antivirus tool from 994,061 PCs

A flaw has been found in Windows Vista that could allow rootkits to be hidden or denial-of-service attacks to be executed on computers using the operating system.

Microsoft told ZDNet UK on Friday that it had investigated the issue, but was “currently unaware of any attacks trying to use the vulnerability or of customer impact.” It could not, however, confirm the inclusion of a fix for the problem in the next as-yet-unreleased service pack for Vista, nor give the release date for that service pack.

Kernel vulnerability found in Vista | Security - CNET News

In addition to the shoddy grammar, the messages are identifiable in their attempt to lure victims to an outside URL.

On clicking the link, the user is briefly sent to a fake Federal Reserve page which attempts to download a PDF file, supposedly containing further details on the attack. Shortly after accessing the page, the user is forwarded to a pornographic web site.

Federal Reserve spam attack emerges - vnunet.com