Microsoft urges Windows XP users to ditch old Flash version

Microsoft is urging Microsoft Windows XP users to uninstall Adobe Flash Player 6.0 and install a newer version, ideally version 10. Microsoft bundled Adobe Flash Player 6.0 with Windows XP when it was originally released. Adobe discontinued support for Flash Player 6.0 in 2006.

“The Adobe Flash Player 6 was provided with Windows XP and contains multiple vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page.

Adobe has addressed these vulnerabilities in newer versions of Adobe Flash Player. Microsoft recommends that users of Windows XP with Adobe Flash Player 6 installed update to the most current version of Flash Player available from Adobe.”

Now we have found the uninstaller for Flash Player 6.0 does work perfectly, and then impact the installation of newer versions. The total uninstallation involved manual file removal and registry cleanup.

We highly recommend all Windows XP users check their version of Adobe Flash Player, ensure Adobe Flash Player 6.0 is removed, and Version 10 installed.

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Kingston Pendrives not as secure as they should be

Kingston Technology is instructing customers to return certain models of its memory sticks, after the firm discovered a glitch in its DataTraveler Secure flash drives.

The company said in a security notice that the models affected were “privacy” editions of the DataTraveler Secure, DataTraveler Elite and DataTraveler Blackbox.

Kingston said the security flaw could allow a wrongdoer to hack into the memory sticks. “A skilled person with the proper tools and physical access to the drives may be able to gain unauthorised access to data,” warned the vendor.

Kingston added that a number of its USB drives weren’t affected by the security flaw.
Customers whose drives could be exploited by the security loophole should return the product, where Kingston said it would apply a factory update.

Kingston had claimed that its Data Traveler Secure drive was the first of its kind to protect “100 per cent of data on-the-fly via 256-bit hardware-based AES encrpytion”.

It’s also supposed to “meet enterprise-level security and compliance requirements”, according to blurb about the drive on the firm’s website.

[Via The Register]

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I can’t get to you because of the bad weather

Is this a phrase you have heard recently? “I can’t get to you because of the bad weather.” The UK always seems very unprepared for bad weather. A bit of snow and ice and we grind to a halt. It’s not all our fault. It is difficult to predict accurately and with a massive road network tough to keep it all clear.

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McAfee Labs Predicts Facebook, Twitter Will Be Platforms of Choice for Emerging Threats

“Over the past decade, we’ve seen a tremendous improvement in the ability to successfully monitor, uncover, and stop cybercrime,” said Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee Labs. “We’re now facing emerging threats from the explosive growth of social networking sites, the exploitation of popular applications and more advanced techniques used by cybercriminals, but we’re confident that 2010 will be a successful year for the cybersecurity community.”

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Christmas Greetings from Spammers – Don’t be fooled

Spammers are clearly putting the holidays to good use, as they have made Christmas just another reason to spread malware.

Trend Micro threat analysts recently received a spammed message purporting to come from 123greetings.com, a legitimate site that users can access to send e-cards to family and friends. The email message even sported the site’s logo (see Figure 1).

123 Greetings Spam Email

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Spyware scan real or fake?

Have you seen windows like these on your PC recently? Such windows are regularly appearing on our screens.

Scareware wronguns have devised a neat but dangerous piece of coding designed to dupe prospective marks into believing that Microsoft is endorsing their worthless scamware.

A rogue anti-malware product called DefenceLab redirects infected PCs to Microsoft’s Support portal, but modifies the HTML content so as to appear as if Microsoft is endorsing the software. The ploy, which follows a fake scan and bogus Windows Security Center alert, is designed to persuade Windows users already exposed to infection by agents of the scareware package to pay for a full version of the supposed clean-up utility.

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77% of Brits will use smartphone on Chirstmas Day

More than three quarters of smartphone owners will be checking their handsets over Christmas, says Rightmobilephone.

Research by the mobile phone comparison website revealed that of those that said they would monitor their emails via theirhandset over the festive period, two third said they would check their phone twice a day.

Furthermore, 45 percent said they would be checking theirphone in case a problem crops up, while a quarter said checking their handset was an unbreakable habit and 11 percent admitted they would do it to impress their boss.

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‘Cold call scam’ warning issued

Computer users are being warned to be on their guard against a “cold calling scam” that could leave their bank details available to criminals.

The magazine Which? Computing said it had heard from people around the country who had been called by scammers pretending to be from the computer software giant Microsoft or an internet service provider.

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