According to Microsoft Corp., the vulnerability has not been fixed, but they’re offering a work around in the mean time.

The vulnerability disclosed Monday affects Internet Explorer users whose computers run the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating software.

How do hackers exploit this vulnerability? It can allow hackers to remotely take control of victims’ machines. The victims don’t need to do anything to get infected except visit a Web site that’s been hacked.

Do not click on any links that may look suspicious in emails or links shared through social networks.

To apply the fix, visit Microsoft’s Knowledge base article 972890 and click the “Enable workaround” Fix it link. Then run the downloaded .msi file to disable the ActiveX control. To reverse the change, download and run the .msi from the “Disable workaround” link.

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Every Saturday we will hunt down the best of the best blog articles in the past week and serve them up for our visitors and fans. Do you have something worthy for our Sharks to feed on?

The Bait Bucket – Writing, Self Improvement and Health

Fetching Friday – A weekly series authored by Kristi at Kikolani.com. This week has many surprises that will sure spark a feeding frenzy for many readers. One of the articles I found interesting was the Twitter Marketing eBook Review. This is a must read weekly article.

The Relationship Between Success and Failure – Jonathan the author of Advanced Life Skills provides a great article on self improvement. As I stated in my comment – “A challenge to me is something outside my comfort zone and I test myself to see if I can adapt.”

Family & Blogging — Who Comes First? – Ching the author of this blog really puts things into perspective. This blog is a must read to understand the importance of how to share time between blogging and family.

Grammar Helper: Farther vs. Further – Joanie the author of CornerScribe explains and compares the difference between these two words. I am sure we all have our own words we tend to use incorrectly.

Tasty Technology Bytes – Tech Stuff, SEO, Security

Robot txt mystery unraveled – The San Antonio crazy man John Sullivan gets techie on us with this eye opening article.

Firefox 3.5 Final Version Released – Download Now – Gennice the author of Gnoted takes you through some of the added features and performance improvements for Firefox 3.5.

I Set Up A Posterous Site – Todd the author of Todd’s Tips  explains how you can make posts to your blog, Facebook, Twitter, and many other services simply by sending an email.

Multi-threaded Stack Class for PHP – Authored by David Hopkins over at SemLabs. This is a PHP class to quickly download single URLs and stacks of URLs using multiple threads.

Giveaway of the Day – PDFZilla 1.2 – PDFZilla is a desktop application that quickly and accurately converts PDF files. Thanks to my friend Fool for finding these great keepers! To get your free copy visit http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla-1-2/.

We Need a Bigger Boat – Marketing, Business and Making Money

Teen Entrepreneurs are Taking Over the World – Jennifer the author of Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology writes about this phenomenon of how more and more teens are becoming business savvy.

Oh, you do eCommerce too? – Matt the owner and author of Mattched IT provides valuable information on what a business should know about ecommerce.

Hook, Line and Sinker – Odd stuff, Humor and Ramblings

Protecting Your Comics – This is more of a tip on how to protect your valuable collection of comic books. If you are a collector, this is a must read to keep your investment protected. Thank you for sharing James!

Trophy Catches – Arts and Entertainment

A beautifully wise passage by Kahlil Gibran – Bren the author of Mystic’s Thought Garden always finds the treasure chest.

Your Bark is Bigger than Your Byte – Animals and Pets

Should You Let Your Dog Play in Creeks and Lakes? – Hart the author of PetLvr.com shares this safety tip about dogs who love water. I never thought about this before, but thanks to Hart, I have a better understanding.

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This keyword suggestion tool will help you with choosing the right keywords terms and or phrases for your website. You can see which keyword combination’s are more popular and also get ideas for more keyword combination’s. Those keyword popularity results are extracted from two sources – Keyword Discovery and Overture.

What I like most about this tool is that it provides the number of daily searches for the particular keyword. In the image below I typed in the keywords “Internet Security” to see how many daily searches are performed for those keywords.

Visit the Keyword Suggestion Tool and give it a try.

Note: The data is not 100% accurate, but it will give you an idea which keywords are more popular than others.

What’s so different?

We welcome all the neat features, but what I appreciate the most out of 3.5 are the greatly improved speed and stability.

There’s more!

Speed: The 3.5 version of Mozilla Firefox is noticeably faster than its previous version.

Privacy: When a Private Browsing session is enabled, computer users can surf any site at all with no trace remaining when they exit the site.

Music and Video Support: Firefox 3.5 now supports HTML 5 audio and video elements, users can watch video and listen to music directly in a Web page, without launching any plug-ins.

Session Control: If Mozilla Firefox crashes, users can choose which tabs to resuscitate, a feature previously available through the Session Manager add-on.

Awesome Bar: The location bar -dubbed the “Awesome Bar” by some perhaps overly enthusiastic developers – has been made even more, well, awesome in Mozilla Firefox 3.5. Previously, you could simply type the name of what you were searching into that field, foregoing the search box altogether, and a Google search page would show results. Mozilla has tweaked the search functionality in the browser so surfers can show only bookmarks by using an asterisk after a query such as “Channelweb *”, or show only tags by using a plus “Channelweb +”. Thanks to http://www.crn.com for spelling this feature out!

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Technology has rocketed in the last 30 years as the Walkman has evolved. Sony has sold 385 million Walkman machines worldwide in 30 years as it evolved from playing cassettes to compact disks then minidisks — a smaller version of the CD — and finally digital files. Apple has sold more than 210 million iPod machines worldwide in eight years.

I remember the first cassette that I purchased from Sam Goody was Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti. I played that tape until it stretched. I know many of us used the pen to fix loose tape rewinds, but hey we were innovative and some what creative. It definitely beat 8-Tracks.

The original Walkman was as big as a paperback book, and weighed 390 grams (14 ounces). It wasn’t cheap, especially for those days, costing $340. You can get a Laptop for the money.

Happy Birthday Sony Walkman!

When did you buy your first Walkman? What was the first cassette you purchased?

This widely circulated new photo shows an Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft participating in an exercise in the Gulf of Alaska June 22, 2009 as it executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis.

The visual phenomenon, which sometimes but not always accompanies the breaking of the sound barrier, has also been seen with nuclear blasts and just after space shuttles launches, too. A vapor cone was photographed as the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission rocketed skyward in 1969.

Source: Live Science – Commentary by Frank J.

Name: Antivirus Agent Pro
Version: 1.0
Publisher: Antivirus Agent Pro
Risk Impact: Medium
Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Behavior: AntivirusAgentPro is a misleading application that may give exaggerated reports of threats on the computer.

AntivirusAgentPro – Removal Instructions

The following instructions pertain to all current and recent Symantec antivirus products, including the Symantec AntiVirus and Norton AntiVirus product lines.

1. Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP).
2. Update the virus definitions.
3. Run a full system scan.
4. Delete any values added to the registry.

For specific details on each of these steps, read the following instructions.

Mozilla plans to issue Firefox 3.5 final version tomorrow, according to Firefox director Mike Beltzner. The version has been delayed for several months, but it will be here in 24 hours? We hope!

Mike Beltzner gives a quick preview of what’s new and exciting in Firefox 3.5, coming tomorrow from Mozilla.

Firefox 3.5 comes with a load of new features–5,000 total, according to Mozilla. Among the major ones: built-in video; local storage to enable richer Web applications that can work even with no network connection; a private browsing mode; geolocation to aid Web pages that can benefit from knowing a user’s location; and faster performance loading pages and executing Web-based JavaScript programs.

“We’ve added technology we think upgrades the Web itself,” Beltzner said.

Get ready to get even more foxy tomorrow!

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