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Research Reveals Internet "Black Holes"

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Sometimes you try to reach a site and mysteriously you can’t get to it. Perhaps you think its simply your imagination, something wrong with your computer, or perhaps the site is under attack. Or maybe the server that the site is hosted on went down.
However, the cause could be far more mysterious. With the massive amount of users trafficing the internet today, weird things are bound to happen, but about the strangest perhaps is the recently discovered, but long suspected phenomena of internet “black holes.”

More at DailyTech

Time To Run Windows Update

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Lots of updates available for XP, 2K3, Vista, Office, IE6, IE7, etc…
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2008

***For those who have installed SP1:
As far as I can tell the 9 updates that actually apply to Vista itself are already included in SP1 (by comparing the dates on the files, and 1 update is actually listed inside SP1).
(No, I am not 100% positive and the SP1 release notes haven’t been updated)
These are:
Windows6.0-KB937287-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB938371-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB942831-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB943055-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB943899-v2-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB946026-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB946041-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB946456-x86.msu
Windows6.0-KB947172-x86.msu

Copy Protection Bites Microsoft

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Karma???

Microsoft has warned that a faulty driver used for copy protection could allow a hacker to gain high-level access to a PC. The problem lies with a driver called secdrv.sys, which is part Macrovision’s SafeDisc software included with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. The software, which can block unauthorized copying of some media, also ships with Windows Vista, but that OS is not affected.

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Link to fix.

Top 10 Wi-Fi Boosts, Tweaks and Apps

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No doubt you’ve got a home wireless network or you’ve connected to hotspots at the local coffee shop or airport—but are you getting the most out of your Wi-Fi? Whether you want to strengthen, extend, bridge, secure, sniff, detect, or obscure your signal, today we’ve got our top 10 best Wi-Fi utilities and tweaks for the power wireless user.

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