McAfee has announced that their two softwares, VirusScan Enterprise 8.5 and AntiSpyware Enterprise 8.5 will support the newest Microsoft operating system, Vista.

The software provides customers protection from known and unknown threats such as viruses, spyware, adware, rootkits, and other exploits.

Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista will be supported by these softwares.

Rees Johnson who is the vice president of product management in McAfee said “”McAfee is committed to supporting its customers with Windows Vista compatibility.”

Today on YouTube, someone has posted a video of someone drilling a hole through the screen of an old laptop while it is switched on (with a painfully slow drill). It is interesting to see how the screen fails.
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Adobe has announced that the flaw in their Acrobat software has been been upgraded to a critical condition.

The flaw was reported last month and it was not a critical flaw since it just causes the software to crash. However, recent findings show that hackers can also run malicious code by taking advantage of the flaw.

The advice from Adobe is to either upgrade to its newest version, which is version 8, or replace the AcroPDF.dll file.

Microsoft has scheduled to release patches for six of their flaws on their Windows and Studio products next week.

However, the patches does not include the fix for the Word office application.

The updates are rated as critical so users who use Windows are highly recommended to download and install the updates.

There is no date on when they will release a patch to fix the flaw in Word.

Five of the six patches are for Windows while the other patch is a fix for a Visual Studio flaw.

Yesterday, Microsoft found a flaw in MS-Word. Today, they discovered a new flaw in a different software. This time, it is not part of their Office suite. It is on their media player.

eEye Digital Security says that the problem is a buffer overflow error. The error is located on the file WMVCORE.DLL. The error occurs when long “REF HREF” tags are produced in the process of a .asx file.

Therefore, users should should not open .asx files for the meantime.

Microsoft has announced that a serious flaw has been found in their software, Microsoft Word.

The affected versions are Word 2000, Word 2002, Office Word 2003, and Word Viewer 2003 for Windows operating systems. For Mac, the affected versions are Word 2004 and Word 2004 v.X.

Some of Microsoft’s other suite called Works are also affected. The affected versions are 2004, 2005, and 2006.

The flaw tricks users on opening malicious word files which would compromise their systems.

The IT industry looks much different from the outside than it does from the inside. There are secrets and tricks about how it operates that nobody knows except those who are in the industry. Kind of like a weird cult. That is, until now. Here’s my list of what everyone who wants to enter the IT industry should know.

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Macworld has reported that documents from Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint are not compatible with the Mac when they are saved under the Windows operating system using Office 2007. The extensions of the file formats are .docx .xlsx, and .pptx.

They also reported that users who use Office 2003 in Windows can open Office 2007 documents which are saved in Windows by using a compatibility pack.

Novell promised that it will support Office 2007 so users that use their OpenOffice suite can view and edit the Office 2007 documents.

Anti-virus software developer McAfee has announced their predictions for the year 2007 about the threats on digital security.

Some of them are:
-Phishing web sites and adware will be more common.
-Trojan horses and bots will be more popular.
-Spam in general will increase.
-Identity thieves will discover new ways to steal info.
-Transmission of virus through memory cards could become a common issue.
-Smart Phones will become a common target.
-Viruses and Spyware may be included in digital video files.

In the computer industry there are plenty of buzzwords that get slung about when talking about the next generation of computer hardware and CPU codenames are quite possibly the hardest to keep track of due to the sheer amount of them. We have put together this list with the codename of each of the existing AMD and Intel processors.
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