It’s that time again–time to get your patches on, and to do so quickly. Microsoft yesterday hosted the biggest Patch Tuesday event of the young year when it posted 12 security fixes for 20 security flaws in its products. Seven of the patches addressed zero-day flaws that have been used to launch attacks across the Internet in recent weeks, and there was even a patch fixing Microsoft’s security tools, which could have automatically triggered the exploit with no interaction from the user.

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Of Germany studying do not protest themselves any longer - they “gruscheln” over Internet. The young director/conductor [1] of the StudiVZ counts on the fact that up to the beginning of term German studying will have announced itself the majority of the two million in their on-line Community.

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Yes, you have probably read it before on different news sites and blogs. An ad on MySpace spread spyware. As reports have mentioned, the banner ad was the one used to spread it. For Windows users who did not get the patches, they were affected by it as it was a WMF vulnerability that was exploited. Average computer users would probably be the ones who were greatly affected by this and they probably did not even notice anything.

There are articles that even mention the other browser, which is Mozilla Firefox. They said that those who use it were probably not affected by it unless the user downloaded the WMF file and opened it on their computers that are running on Windows. It is mainly something that affects Windows users who browse using Internet Explorer.

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Miranda IM v0.6.7 (Windows, Open Source, 1.1MB) is a smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more. Supplemented by hundreds of plugins and other content, Miranda IM is very flexible and provides many avenues for customisation.

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