Year: 2009

Microsoft Release MS09-017

Paul

Microsoft Today has released fix a Powerpoint Vulnerability:

[ad]Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 Service Pack 3 (KB957790), Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 Service Pack 3 (KB957781), Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service Pack 3(KB957784), Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Service Pack 1 and 2* (KB957789).

It looks like this Powerpoint Vulnerability is in the wild so you should update your Microsoft Office. [intlink id=”2883″ type=”post”]Autopatcher[/intlink] will download the latest the Microsoft Office patches and help you update your office computers without being on the internet.

Other Software affected by this update is:

PowerPoint Viewer 2003 (KB969615), PowerPoint Viewer 2007 Service Pack 1 and PowerPoint Viewer 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB970059), Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Service Pack 1 and 2 (KB969618)

All these should be installed as soon as you get a chance.  If you have several different version I would recommend [intlink id=”2883″ type=”post”]Autopatcher[/intlink] to do it for you.   While you at it you should also update your [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Anti-virus and Firewall software[/intlink].  You should schedule a time this week to update these important Microsoft Office programs.   You don’t want to clean a system that has a virus or trojan.   Hackers will want to jump on board and make your job even worse.  This update replaces MS08-051, so please update soon!

When not to post #twitterpornnames

Paul

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I’ve heard others call this a scam:

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[ad]Now Although I know PCworld has made everyone paranoid that this is a scam.  I want to remind people that it was probably just a for fun.   According to Graham Cluely’s blog, He points out why you shouldn’t tell people the important information.

I see no evidence this was done to gather your information but Pcworld has sent out the warnings and made people think this was a scam, or a Phishing attack.  Although this could be used to get the information needed for your Gmail or other accounts.

I do recommend deleting those tweets and reminding people that you are the only ones that can prevent identity theft.  Trend Micro talks about this very detail about the subject but again they don’t think this was conceived as a phishing attempt.   I’ll let you decide but remember tweeting that it is a scam will only keep it on the trends, your best advice is just go on with your life and tell everyone to delete that sensitive information.

Using Roboforms On Screen Keyboard

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I’ve had someone ask about the On Screen Keyboard, and I thought I would show you how to use it:
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As you can see with Roboform, you have a option to use for on screen keyboard.  Just clicking the button on the right will do this:

roboformkeyboard1As you can see you can use the On screen keyboard to put in your master password, this is great for those who have the portable Roboform and use on several different systems.  Although the on screen keyboard is available on all versions of Roboform.  I’ve got the Pro version of Roboform but have the unregistered version of the Portable app and can only have 10 passwords a time, it at least lets me use on the road.

Roboform now has an option to back up your passwords on there website.  It is however requires you to have a Pro account this helps let you have your passwords on the road.   If you want to learn more about the specials that Roboform has just go check it out yourself.  If you would like to see other screenshots by all means see if it is right for you.

See my [intlink id=”2646″ type=”post”]review of Roboform[/intlink] to read it or download it directly.

Email from Inspot : STD? I don’t think so!

Paul

The Email looks like this:
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[ad]It looks to be from Inspot.org.  I thought it was some malicious site with software but I couldn’t find it.   I imagine this is trick because I’ve been faithful to my wife since we got married and I’ve seen the doctor and gotten blood taken from me.

This is most likely an awareness, if you have a regular family doctor and you want to get tested that would be my suggestion.   You don’t have to go to this place.  I am sure I don’t have an STD because if I have it my wife would and she had 3 Kids so they would of found out.   I know of only one person I had had contact with before my wife and I also know where she lives, she had kids also.  So I would of found out way before this like 5 years ago.

Anyway this is most likely a trick if you see the last line “Internet Notification Service for Parters or Tricks.”  That tells me this a joke but If you are worried go see you doctor, just to be cautious.   Although this isn’t security related it is always good practice to get a checkup from time to time.

Identi.ca here I come!!

Paul

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With Twitter being really Challenging I have switched from Twitter to my new Micro-blogging home.  Identi.ca, and Have also changed my updates to go to my Ident.ca profile and no more Twitter.  Thanks to some searching around for a WordPress plugin to go to the Identi.ca Server, It will post automatically.

I encourage all my users to switch from Twitter to Identi.ca but if you can fully switch you can still use your Twitter account with Identi.ca and have SMS with Identi.ca also.  So you can use it like you did with Twitter and still have what you like.

On a Side note, all the [intlink id=”3222″ type=”post”]Cricket Phone[/intlink] users who want to use twitter with your phone, it looks like you can have both with Identi.ca by using Ident.ca twitter integration you can use it to send messages back and fourth on twitter.  I have interrogated Identi.ca with my Cricket phone and it works now I don’t know about Twitter because of [intlink id=”3509″ type=”post”]what happened[/intlink], but the identi.ca updates are coming my way.

There is also Friendfeed that I have been using more and more for people who want to subscribe to that instead.  If you want to talk to me these are a way to keep in contact with me!!    With Identi.ca you can keep updated with my updates by RSS.  If you don’t want to create an account, this is one way to keep up to date on what I am blogging or saying but I would like to continue my Conversations on identi.ca.