Date: 09/23/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

Oracle's chief also boasts about his company's security prowess while taking shots at Microsoft's efforts.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Ellison%3A+Encryption+is+key+to+data+protection/2100-1009_22-5879101.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 09/25/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

Would an OSI which accepted what Microsoft, and other proprietary companies, want to deem "open" be stepping up or knuckling under?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=451&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 09/29/05 (Security)    Keywords: software, microsoft

Award to Microsoft and Symantec is result of plea agreement in a case in Houston in which the defendant admitted he sold pirated software.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Software+pirate+to+pay+%241.1+million/2100-1009_22-5884914.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 09/30/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: html, web, microsoft

Two years ago a jury awarded little Eolas $500,000,000 in damages for patent infringement by Microsoft. Microsoft danced the usual dance, first appealing to a higher court and then exhorting web-standards organization W3C to join them in asking the US patent office for a reconsideration of Eolas patent.Yesterday, the patent office ruled the patent valid. Microsoft is at the end of their games. Now, they have to pay Eolas and alter IE to avoid the Eolas patent.

So, why is the 'duck posting this to the Mozilla community?

Well, let's just say that the patent is fairly wide-ranging. Eolas' patent covers technologies such as ActiveX, but equally covers Mozilla plug-ins, the HTML Embed and Object tags, embedded object pop-up controls, and XBL (Mozilla's binding language). Microsoft has a half-billion to pay-up, what does the Mozilla Foundation have? For sure not enough money!

Maybe Eolas will license the Mozilla Foundation the patent in some way shape or form? If they do not; might not that effect Mozilla's third licensing option: the GPL, thereby preventing any further distribution of Firefox? could the patent possibly be expanded to include Firefox Extensions, one of our few advantages over IE?

I'm not thinking on the possible troubles too much. Until something bad happens, nothing real has happened and for all I know the owner of Eolas is a firefox user and wouldn't dream of hurting us... stranger things have happened.

Qvacks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/324524.html

Date: 09/30/05 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: sql, microsoft

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Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mysql/69244.html

Date: 10/01/05 (Security)    Keywords: software, microsoft

A dangerous Trojan horse exploits a hole in Microsoft's Office software that has remained unfixed for five months.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Trojan+rides+in+on+unpatched+Office+flaw/2100-1009_22-5886543.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/04/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft, google

If Google pushed OpenOffice, and integrated with OpenOffice, it might hurt Microsoft, which would greatly please Sun.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=459&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/04/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: microsoft

Hey everyone I have an excel question...

Is there anyway to just make a list of numbers go all the way down the column without typing them?
For work I have to just have a column going down the left side from numbers 5170001 to 5179999 (which is obviously a lot of numbers to type) is there any microsoft office program that will just insert them all for me?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/46554.html

Date: 10/04/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, web, microsoft, ebay

Many e-Bay sellers are expressing their frustration at e-Bay's lopsided web design in favor of MS Internet Explorer. According to yesterday's mozillaZine post; AuctionBytes.com , an on-line news site, is reporting that some eBay sellers have started a petition to persuade the auction heavyweight to support Mozilla Firefox and other alternative browsers. According to the article, some features on the eBay Sell Your Item page are optimised for Microsoft Internet Explorer and do not work correctly in Firefox and other browsers. Furthermore, there is no Firefox version of eBay Toolbar, which is currently only available for Internet Explorer on Windows.

The petition, entitled eBay to provide alternative browser support, was created by Jared McAteer and has 1,189 signatures at the time of writing. Signers are required to provide a name and email address.

"It should be noted that sellers can use Firefox to auction items on eBay but the experience is not as smooth and refined as it is with Internet Explorer. Not all of the site is Mozilla-hostile: in May, eBay improved its Picture Manager tool to add support for Firefox. In addition, eBay is one of the default search engines in the Firefox Search Bar, which we presume raises revenue for the Mozilla Foundation."

If you feel e-Bay has a faulty business policy, kindly click here to sign a petition requesting e-Bay to provide further support to other web browsers besides IE.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/326359.html

Date: 10/04/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft, google

If Office revenues decline, a lot of fuel goes out of Microsoft's stock price, which makes it easier for both Google and Sun to take Microsoft on elsewhere. Google and Sun benefit hugely if Microsoft's revenues just don't go up as quickly.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=460&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 10/05/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

CEO Steve Ballmer and security chief Mike Nash are expected to detail Microsoft's security strategy and product plans on Thursday.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+to+provide+security+strategy+update/2100-1009_22-5888907.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/07/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

Microsoft plans to release eight security alerts with fixes for Windows flaws--and at least one hole could be used for a worm attack.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Slew+of+Windows+patches+coming/2100-1009_22-5890442.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/07/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, microsoft, google

Sun and Google join forces to boost their Web tools. Could partnership also challenge Microsoft's hold on PC applications?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/This+week+in+Web+alliances/2100-9588_22-5890852.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/07/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

Chinks in the armor of the open-source rival to IE don't benefit anyone, Microsoft security advisor says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft%3A+Nothing+to+gain+from+Firefox+flaws/2100-1009_22-5890922.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/09/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, security, virus, antivirus, spyware, spam, microsoft

Firstly, I just want this to be known that this isn't an anti-windows rant or anything. There is a question being posed here, I promise :P

With that said, companies like McAfee and Symantec have basically been making a living solely from Microsoft's security oversights. They've been charging people to use their software which protects those people from the vulnerabilities that Microsoft left open. The quality of these programs varies from function to function. Even then, they ignore adware since it's not considered 'malicous'. And even still, they have issues with using the same name for similar viruses. Users are faced with these same problems with any anti-virus/anti-adware/anti-whatever software they use. There is a lot of similar companies, but they don't have a common agreeance on what is and isn't a virus, or if they should detect adware. There's also the issues that come with the firewall program they install. Traffic from the internet isn't always malicious, but those firewalls can't usually tell the difference. Very few of these programs are free. None of these problems actually FIX the problem. They're only removing programs that exploit the initial vulnerabilities, leaving room for reuse value.

As many of you surely know already, Microsoft has recently released a beta version of their anti-crap (to summarize anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-adware, anti-spyware, etc) scanner and removal tool. Before that, they've included a firewall program in XP SP2. Microsoft is not charging anything for either of these programs. At least not as of yet if they ever decide to.

So, my question is this; Do you folks think Microsoft is taking a step in the right direction by adding the firewall and scanner tools? Will they do a better job than the other Antivirus vendors? Do you think maybe they are taking a step in the WRONG direction, like, why aren't they fixing the actual problems instead of covering them up? What do you all think?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/793809.html

Date: 10/10/05 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: security, microsoft

Hi,

As you may know, MSN requires upnp for video chat/voice chat to happen, I'm currently using borderware, almost all (heck, maybe all) eal4+ certified firewalls do not support upnp because its a security loophole.

however, the alternative being to open the entire udp 5004-65535 range according to microsoft's documentation...

does anyone have any suggestions?

either an alternative video conferencing tool or a solution to the firewall problem?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/itprofessionals/25519.html

Date: 10/10/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

Net Applications, a provider of Web-based applications that measure, monitor and market Web sites for the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME), today announced its monthly Web site traffic analysis. In September, Netscape Navigator and Apple's Safari continued their modest gains for the second straight month, while FireFox lost market share for the second time in 2005.

"Opera made news last month when it announced that it will offer its browser for free, without advertising in what appeared to be a response to the wild adoption rate of FireFox," Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president of marketing and strategic relationships for NetApplications. "FireFox, Safari, Netscape and now Opera are jockeying for position and implementing aggressive marketing maneuvers which is setting the stage for a very exciting month in October and throughout the remainder of 2005."


September Browser Market Share:
Microsoft Internet Explorer - 86.87%
FireFox - 7.55%
Safari - 2.39%
Netscape - 2.16%
Opera - 0.51%
Other - 0.52%


August Browser Market Share:
Microsoft Internet Explorer - 86.31%
FireFox - 8.27%
Safari - 2.20%
Netscape - 2.02%
Opera - 0.62%
Mozilla - 0.51%
Other - 0.07%

Source: Market Share by Net Applications
Copy: Epiac's Place

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/328594.html

Date: 10/12/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

Steve Jobs rebuffed RealNetworks 18 months ago. Today's deal with Microsoft now bolsters an anti-iPod alliance.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Antitrust+truce+frees+rivals+for+bite+at+Apple/2100-9588_22-5893300.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/11/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, virus, spyware, spam, microsoft

Will Microsoft's announcement of a new security strategy to provide better virus, spam and spyware protection for corporate customers?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/CIO+Jury+deliberates+on+Microsoft+security/2100-1009_22-5893260.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 10/13/05 (Security)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

Connecting Microsoft and Yahoo's IM services creates an environment where a worm could spread farther than ever before, experts say.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Experts%3A+Microsoft-Yahoo+alliance+is+food+for+IM+worms/2100-1009_22-5894198.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn