Another critical bug in Microsoft ‘s Internet Explorer (IE) browser has been found by researcher at Austrian security consulting firm SEC Consult. This IE bug can cause the software to crash, in turn, could possibly be used to let an attacker run unauthorized software on the IE user’s computer system. Microsoft has confirmed that the bug exists and is investigating the matter.

By loading HTML pages that make use of certain ActiveX components, researchers were able to overwrite registers on the computer’s processor, said Martin Eisner, CTO with SEC Consult. This technique could theoretically be used to fill parts of the computer’s memory with malicious code, creating what is called a “heap-based buffer overflow,” he said.

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“It’s possible to crash Internet Explorer,” Eisner said. “Executing arbitrary code might be possible; we could not confirm that now.”

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IE Bug Might Crash Browser

Last week, we heard in the computer processor market, AMD sued Intel for some antitrust offences. In the same week, in software market, there was a settlement done between IBM and Microsoft for 1990s antitrust case.

IBM Corp. announced on Friday, July 1, 2005, that they will get USD$775 million in cash and USD$75 million worth of software from Microsoft Corp. to settle claims still lingering from the federal government’s antitrust case against Microsoft in the 1990s. The USD$775 million payment will be included in IBM’s second-quarter earnings, which are due to be released in two weeks.
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IBM Wins USD$850 Million From Microsoft

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Motorola E895 is the latest Linux phone released, after Motorola announced on Friday, July, 2005, their plan to remake most of its mobile phone line with Linux, expanding use of the open-source operating system to midrange phones.

To use Linux is their midrange phones are the second wave since Motorola began selling Linux-powered mobile phones in 2003 in high-end phones. Motorola expects to change that as software makers slim down Linux and hardware makers bulk up cell phone computing power, Chin said.

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The E895 is a flip-phone design that uses a version of Linux from MontaVista Software, said Cheryln Chin, vice president for Motorola mobile phone marketing. Motorola expects to begin shipping it in Asia in the fourth quarter of the year and in other parts of the globe after that.

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Latest Motorola Linux Phone – E895

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Opera Software has just released on Friday, July 1, 2005, the latest version of the Opera Web browser, Opera 8, is now available to be running on Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphones. With the mobile version of Opera 8, smartphone users to surf the Web with speed and ease on their mobile devices.

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“Originally, we had not planned to make Opera available on the Windows Mobile platform, but users kept asking for it because they were disappointed with the far from satisfactory performance of the browser that came shipped on their devices,” says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software.

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Opera Now Runs On Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone

Usually, when people ask me about spyware detectors or removers, I will definitely recommend Spybot Search & Destroy and AdAware Personal to them. Both are freeware, yet powerful and reliable in detecting and removing most spyware programs.

Now I would recommend another more advance tool, HijackThis. HijackThis is written specifically to detect and remove browser hijacks, or software that takes over your web browser, alters your defaut home page and search engine and other malicious things.

Once you install HijackThis and run it to generate a log file which allows you to analyze the log data and let you on which items to remove and which ones to leave alone. Using HijackThis is a lot like editing the Windows Registry yourself, but you should definitely not do it without some guidance unless you really know what you are doing.
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Guide To Use HijackThis