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October 15, 2004
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1. News: New Worm Attacks MSN Messenger As Service Falters
2. Opinion: Mac Takes Honors as Best Unix Desktop
3. News: PayPal: Service Fully Restored
4. News: Microsoft Issues Flurry of Fixes on Busy Patch Day
5. News: Study Finds Some Cell Phone Users At Risk for Benign
Tumor
6. News: Google Delves into the Desktop
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1. News: New Worm Attacks MSN Messenger As Service Falters
Another candidate in the growing list of exploits on instant
messaging clients and servers arrived in the wild. Called
W32.Funner, the worm on Monday circulated to attack on the
Windows Messenger platform.
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2. Opinion: Mac Takes Honors as Best Unix Desktop
GNOME is nice, KDE is fine and the forthcoming Looking Glass
may be wonderful, but the best Unix desktop is the one in
the Macintosh. Linux and Open Source Editor Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols speaks up in favor of OS X.
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3. News: PayPal: Service Fully Restored
PayPal on Thursday reported that it had restored its online
payment services after facing intermittent outages for more
than five days. PayPal, owned by eBay, said its full
functionality had returned to normal for all users. A day
earlier, the service began to improve, though the company
said delays persisted for some users.
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4. News: Microsoft Issues Flurry of Fixes on Busy Patch Day
A "cumulative security update" plugs eight holes in the
Internet Explorer browser, while other patches address
"critical" vulnerabilities in the Windows shell, in SMTP
and elsewhere. Get the details here.
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5. News: Study Finds Some Cell Phone Users At Risk for Benign
Tumor
A Swedish study suggests that people who use a cell phone
for at least 10 years might increase their risk of
developing a rare benign tumor along a nerve on the side of
the head where they hold the phone. Cell phone addicts,
listen up.
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6. News: Google Delves into the Desktop
Google upped the ante Thursday in the growing desktop search
battle, introducing an application that combines Web results
with those from a user's hard drive. Get the full story
here.
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