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If you haven't installed the sequel to .NET Framework SP1, Microsoft recommends you do so ASAP. SP2 is considered a critical update for developers creating .NET-based applications and services, Visual Studio .NET users, admins and end users. It's now downloadable from Microsoft's Web site.
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NEWS
Flash flaw opens Windows for attack (CNET)
Here's a newsflash about Macromedia's Flash Player: It has a flaw that could let unsavory characters run malicious code on Windows and Unix-based operating systems. A separate flaw has been found that could let an attacker read files on a local hard drive. Macromedia's Web site has the fixes available.
NEWS
Microsoft enlists HP for PC help (CNET)
Hewlett-Packard's services unit has gotten a big shot in the arm, thanks to a bigshot from Redmond. HP will give Microsoft employees and contractors help-desk service in nearly 70 countries.
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QUICK HIT OF THE DAY
Exposing the myth of antivirus
Ask just about anyone who manages a network and they'll tell you that keeping your antivirus software up-to-date is one of the most important daily activities on their network. However, studies and risk analysis have shown that updating antivirus signature files on a daily basis offers no more protection against new viruses than updating on a weekly basis.
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The constant battle of managing IIS
Dear Expert,
I use up-to-date patches and hotfixes and have Norton antivirus software on all my IIS servers. Even with these precautions, security holes constantly pop up. The patches and hotfixes only work sometimes.
There has to be a trade-off between the risk of not being up to date versus the possibility that the server may be fried after installing the latest patch/hotfix?
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The Professor and his Mac tattoo
Teenagers have acquired important ammunition in the ongoing struggle with their parents over the right to bear tattoos. Now kids can shout, "Christof Koch did it, and he's a professor of Computation and Neural Systems!'' Of course, Koch, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, chose to have an Apple (as in Mac) tattooed on his arm, which isn't the ink most teens would choose. Aside from that, smart parents know enough to say, "When you're a professor of Computation and Neural Systems, you can get one, too!"
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