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Microsoft latest security risk: "Cookiejacking"
By Jim Finkle
BOSTON (Reuters) – A computer security researcher has found a flaw in Microsoft Corp's widely used Internet Explorer browser that he said could let hackers steal credentials to access FaceBook, Twitter and other websites.
He calls the technique "cookiejacking."
"Any website. Any cookie. Limit is just your imagination," said Rosario Valotta, an independent Internet security researcher based in Italy.
Hackers can exploit the flaw to access a data file stored inside the browser known as a "cookie," which holds the login name and password to a web account, Valotta said via email
Once a hacker has that cookie, he or she can use it to access the same site, said Valotta, who calls the technique "cookiejacking."
The vulnerability affects all versions of Internet Explorer, including IE 9, on every version of the Windows operating system.
To exploit the flaw, the hacker must persuade the victim to drag and drop an object across the PC's screen before the cookie can be hijacked.
That sounds like a difficult task, but Valotta said he was able to do it fairly easily. He built a puzzle that he put up on Facebook in which users are challenged to "undress" a photo of an attractive woman.
"I published this game online on FaceBook and in less than three days, more than 80 cookies were sent to my server," he said. "And I've only got 150 friends."
Microsoft said there is little risk a hacker could succeed in a real-world cookiejacking scam.
"Given the level of required user interaction, this issue is not one we consider high risk," said Microsoft spokesman Jerry Bryant.
"In order to possibly be impacted a user must visit a malicious website, be convinced to click and drag items around the page and the attacker would need to target a cookie from the website that the user was already logged into," Bryant said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110525/tc_nm/us_microsoft_security
Good luck. If still having problems, I don't know if you'd be comfortable working with this, but it won't hurt for you to read it... bad context menu handler:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
Try this... right click on your desktop... click New Folder -- from there you can get to the Tools tab to try the show hidden folders steps.
Can you go -- Start/Programs/Accessories/Windows Explorer
You can get to the Tools tab from there to finish showing hidden files:
Windows XP and Windows 2003
To enable the viewing of Hidden files follow these steps:
Close all programs so that you are at your desktop.
Double-click on the My Computer icon.
Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
After the new window appears select the View tab.
Put a checkmark in the checkbox labeled Display the contents of system folders.
Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files and folders.
Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide file extensions for known file types.
Remove the checkmark from the checkbox labeled Hide protected operating system files.
Press the Apply button and then the OK button and shutdown My Computer.
Now your computer is configured to show all hidden files.
How to see hidden files in Windows
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial62.html
Many years ago I had to lock up all the hammers in my house... I figured by the time I got my hands on one, the urge to use it on my pc would subside
Montana copper mining heiress dies in NY at 104
By VERENA DOBNIK – Tue May 24, 9:39 pm ET
NEW YORK – Huguette Clark, a 104-year-old heiress to a Montana copper fortune who once lived in the largest apartment on New York City's Fifth Avenue, died Tuesday at a Manhattan hospital, as prosecutors were looking into her care and how her finances were being handled.
The reclusive Clark spent the last two decades of her life in New York City hospitals.
"Madame Clark's passing is a sad event for all those who have loved and respected her over the years," her attorney, Wallace Bock, said in a statement released by his attorney, Robert J. Anello. "She died as she wanted, with dignity and privacy, and we intend to continue to respect her request for privacy."
The Manhattan district attorney's office has been looking into how her affairs were managed, people familiar with the probe have said. Bock and Clark's accountant, Irving Kamsler, were in charge of a fortune estimated at a half-billion dollars.
No criminal charges have been filed against either Bock or Kamsler. Both have denied any wrongdoing in their dealings with Clark; their lawyers declined to comment Tuesday on the investigation.
"During her life and in her passing she always wanted to maintain her privacy, and we are going to continue that request," said Elizabeth Crotty, who represents Kamsler.
Distant relatives said they never saw Clark and feared she may not have understood decisions the two men made for her.
Clark inherited the riches amassed by her father in Montana's mining industry. William A. Clark was one of America's wealthiest men and built railroads across the country, founding Las Vegas in the process. Nevada's Clark County is named for him.
Huguette Clark was born in 1906, when her 67-year-old father was a U.S. senator representing Montana and was married to a 28-year-old Michigan woman named Anna Eugenia La Chapelle. He died in 1925.
At 22, she married a poor bank clerk studying law, but they parted ways after only nine months.
As of last year, Clark still owned a 42-room, multi-floor apartment at 907 Fifth Ave.; a Connecticut castle surrounded by 52 acres of land; and a Santa Barbara, Calif., mansion built on a 23-acre bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Beginning in the 1960s, after her mother died, Clark rarely left her Fifth Avenue home overlooking Central Park. She was rarely seen by building staff, who delivered whatever she needed.
She moved into a hospital in the 1980s.
Clark shunned most visitors and left decisions in the hands of Bock — from bidding on vintage dolls at auction to settling disputes among her nurses.
But Clark "has always been a strong-willed individual with firm convictions about how her life should be led and who should be privy to her affairs," Bock said in an affidavit filed in court last year.
The Manhattan district attorney's office also prosecuted the case involving Brooke Astor, another heiress whose son was convicted of colluding with her attorney to steal millions of dollars from her.
In September, three of Clark's relatives — she was a great-aunt or great-great-aunt to each — asked a Manhattan judge to appoint a guardian for her.
Citing news reports and other information, the relatives accused the attorney and accountant of exercising "improper influence" over Clark and limiting family member's contact with her.
The relatives — Ian Devine and Carla Hall Friedman, of New York, and Karine Albert McCall, of Washington, D.C. — said Clark was at risk of personal and financial harm" from Wallace and Bock.
In addition, the relatives said, the men falsely claimed she did not want to see them.
But state Supreme Court Justice Laura Visitacion-Lewis rebuffed the request for a guardian, writing that the relatives relied on hearsay and "speculative assertions" that Huguette Clark was incapacitated.
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Associated Press writer Jennifer Peltz contributed to this report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110525/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_clark_6
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Free ink-saving utility (Windows only):
PretonSaver Home
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Features
Adjust cost-saving levels for each print job between 0%-70%
Automatically omit pictures and graphics
Set your savings levels per format type (text vs. photo)
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Paulie's pics come from an ad server... make sure you don't have adserv.stocksite.com blocked.
Except we have declared war... on terror. eom.
The one I'm using now is refurbished. It's a couple years old (to me) and I've upgraded the hard drive and cd rom to dvd burner. Come to think of it... the one I had before this was a used one, too. (I scored a great deal on that one... a collage drop out didn't need it anymore, bought from a pc store when I was looking for memory for my Mom's pc). That one I used daily for nearly 10 (TEN!) years. Still have it... too slow for today's apps (Inspiron 8100). Hmmm... the one before that was an old desktop my Mom gave me... I guess I've never owned a new pc.
Does your office do regular backups? Can you restore a backup to that pc... maybe?
Creating a restore point does not necessarily wipe out all previous restore points. Did you look to see if there were any earlier points?
I meant up to 101Mbps. I don't think you can get more than 54 Mbps, though I could be wrong :-p
The downstream. (Wired. You'd never get those speeds wireless.)
When I did that, years ago, I used Audacity:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
It worked great, it's free.
You will still need the hardware... cassette player (I used a portable), a connection (a two sided male plug, probably), and whatever else.
Be careful to turn the sound all the way down to start off or you may blow out your sound card.
It won't open in FF or IE8 for me.
I don't mind most ads. I block flash because of the resources it takes. What I find incredibly annoying is those overlays (like the one ihub uses on the sign in page when you're not signed in yet).
Do you know if Ad Block Plus or No Script (or anything) will block those specifically?
I'm not sure what you're asking. I can't do better than this guide:
http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_4.html
If you just want to change your update preferences:
Tools/Options/Advanced/Update
Uncheck everything to do manual. I have automatically check for Firefox and Add-ons and when they are found Ask me...
If your using the FF4 with the (orange) Firefox button it's
Firefox/Options/Options/Advanced/Update
I prefer to see the Menu bar. If you can't see it, right click on the Address Bar and check Menu Bar.
To go straight to advanced tweaking:
http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_9.html
I will say everything is not written is stone. For example, the guide recommends that you totally uninstall previous version before installing current version. I have never uninstalled a version before upgrading. I've never had a problem either (knock, knock). I do have a back-up of my bookmarks in case there was/is ever a very bad problem with any browser I would use simply because they are very important to me.
I'd be more than happy to help you with something if you can be more specific.
Likely a failed print job that wasn't cancelled. It was still in the printers queue. Can be any numbers of reasons why it failed though... or why it decided to print (insert spooky music!)
That orange button is the FF4 version of the Menu Bar... you can replace it with the traditional Menu bar by clicking the button and under the Options menu checking Menu Bar, or by right clicking on an empty area next to the Tab Bar and checking Menu Bar.
I did several of the browser tweaks starting on this page:
http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_10.html
Memory usage is still high but cpu usage seems to be getting under control. There are a few tweaks in that link I really, really like... for example, if I want a new tab open all I do is put any word in my search bar. Another very cool thing... links don't have to be "live" anymore... I mean you don't have to copy and paste into the address bar... just highlight and right click for your options.
I think it's growing on me, and actually, I might be a little hard on the memory usage. I top out around 120-130k, which is around double what the mse engine uses constantly.
I use Flashblock and have been very happy with it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/
I considered getting No Script yesterday thinking it might help with the cpu usage but I'm waiting on that. What I did do is while I Enable Javascript, I unchecked all the Advanced options.
I understand No Script and Adblock Plus work well together. My Flashblock has to be turned off to watch most Vimeo videos.
Your link lead me there, in a round about way
Thank you!
Firefox Tweak Guide
http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_6.html
A very comprehensive guide, includes new to FF4 notes.
I rarely record what I do, lol, but if I'm worried I'll mess something up beyond my ability to fix it I'll back-up first. Interesting... all my about:config changes (some years old) carried over for me. Wonder why yours didn't.
How did you get Reload and Stop separated? Mine is a combo button on the end of the address bar. Edit, adding a separator bar separated them (who'da thought) though now I can't adjust the size of the address bar and search bar, just fyi. I did finally get my Home button moved (have to drag it to the Customize pallet before you can move it to where you want it).
I've been using FF for years so I will do my best to keep liking it, lol. I did several tweaks (sorry I can't say exactly what I did or what actually helped on an individual basis because my results are as a whole). Memory usage is still rather high but I have the control to get it back down whenever I need to without shutting down the browser - see last note here. Cpu usage still spikes but it's not quite as high and very short lived. I'll keep looking, occasionally, for solutions to those two issues.
Adjust bookmark dropdown menu, first link is the code, second tells where to put it:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1789296#1789296
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles?s=userChrome.css&as=s
Tweaks
Firefox consumes a lot of CPU resources
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox%20consumes%20a%20lot%20of%20CPU%20resources?s=cpu+usage&as=s#w_on-every-website
Tuning up Firefox to reduce memory usage
http://infodotnet.blogspot.com/2008/01/tuning-up-firefox-for-free-up-more.html
A very cool tip from that last link that all FF users on Windows can appreciate:
You can free more memory when Firefox is minimize. Right click on about:config page chose new -> boolean then type "config.trim_on_minimize" and set value to true. With this feature enabled, Firefox will release memory every time Firefox minimized, so the memory can be use for another application.
Firefox 4
I just downloaded... seems to be faster (from 3.6.15) but that seems to come with a price. Memory usage is fairly high though it isn't in constant growth. Averaging between 85,000k - 110,000k with one window and one additional tab used. Worse are the cpu spikes, consistently over 50% and often up to 100% with every click of the mouse.
Memory Fox add-on is not compatible (though it wasn't working correctly with 3.6.15 either).
Flashblock seems to work as before (have to disable it for some Vimeo videos to work, same as 3.6.15).
History setting options are not apparent -- either you save history or you don't. I set my days to keep history using about:config -- I will see if they are honored :-/
Things I'll get used to... tabs on top of address bar, Home button all the way on the right, Bookmarks dropdown twice as wide.
I hate to say it but cpu usage might turn into the deal breaker.
That's good to know, thanks. I never buy extended warranties. Have never regretted it. (Knock, knock.)
I think these guys warrant almost anything, though I don't know what kind of hoops you have to jump through to collect, or what proof you need for coverage. Can't hurt to take a look...
http://www.squaretrade.com/pages/
Neither too old or dumb. Go to your settings:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/my_settings.aspx
Messages Per Category in Mailbox
put your cursor over the number showing (10,20,50,100,500) to get the drop down. Pick your preference then when you go to your in/out box, at the very bottom is Previous (whatever number you're using). That's the only way I know of.
I ran an update and full scan starting at 8 this morning with no problems.
Step by step to change your default search with Firefox:: from google to yahoo
First copy (drag to highlight, right click/copy) this line:
http://www.YAHOO.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
Follow the directions in this image, when you get to the needed box - right click/paste:
Or... just navigate to-> http://search.yahoo.com/
Click and hold (don't unclick yet) drag the Y! to your Home button, release.
Not to take away from everyone else that tried to help, I hope a picture is really worth a thousand words
Oh, gotcha... sorta like an experiment. Just to be clear, it's not *my* website, don't want to mislead. Just thought it all interesting.
Why did you install it?
Just curious, any particular reason?
If you go about half way down that wiki link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
it talks about transition mechanisms. There are interesting tidbits throughout the article, for examples:
::ffff:192.0.2.128 represents the IPv4 address 192.0.2.128
Most personal computers running recent operating system versions are IPv6-ready. Most applications with network capabilities are not ready but could be upgraded with support from the developers. Java applications adhering to Java 1.4 (February 2002) standards have support for IPv6.
Low-level equipment like network adapters and network switches may not be affected by the change, since they transmit link layer frames without inspecting the contents. Networking devices that obtain IP addresses or perform routing based on IP address do need IPv6 support.
All major operating systems in use as of 2010 on personal computers and server systems have production quality IPv6 implementations. Microsoft Windows has supported IPv6 since Windows 2000, and in production ready state beginning with Windows XP. Windows Vista and later have improved IPv6 support. Mac OS X Panther (10.3), Linux 2.6, FreeBSD, and Solaris also have mature production implementations.
I have no idea what you're asking, lol. My understanding of IPv4/IPv6 is that the ISP's will have to upgrade to 6 eventually and the common user will not have to do anything in particular since all manufactures and service providers will incorporate the changes into their products. New domains, new internet accounts, mobile products, etc.
The links are just informative. The landing page shows your IP addy and how you're connected -- mine shows "connecting with an IPv4 Address of:" followed by my IP addy. My assumption is that my ISP has not upgraded to IPv6 yet, but will have to eventually.
Under that, directly in the middle it says "Normal Test" that's testing both IPv4 and IPv6. On either side are links for each test individually.
The wiki link is a much more detailed explanation of the protocol in general.
IPv6
This page shows your IPv6 and/or IPv4 address
http://whatismyv6.com/
If the IPv6 only test shows "The page cannot be displayed" (Internet Explorer), "Server not found" (Firefox), any error or search page then you do not have working IPv6 connectivity. "Normal Test" shows which protocol your browser prefers when you have both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity. This page should work even on computers with IPv6 only connectivity.
...Compatibility with IPv6 networking is mainly a software or firmware issue. However, much of the older hardware that could in principle be upgraded is likely to be replaced instead. The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) suggests that all Internet servers be prepared to serve IPv6-only clients by January 2012....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
It's not very often you see these words in the same breath.
Microsoft... as good if not better than anything on the market...