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Microsoft Subnet is pleased to welcome new blogger Bryan Sullins to the community! Sullins (MISM, MCITP, MCSE, MCT, A+, Network+, Linux+, LPIC-2, Security+, CEH) works as a trainer for learning partner New Horizons. He notes that Windows 7 has a number of new features that will make admins happy (PowerShell by default, location-aware printing), but that it is also stuffed full of new features that won't turn heads such as: "Yet Even More Ways to Open Programs (YEMWTOP - use that at your next party, I think it will sweep across the nation). Shortcut Keys galore, and some are given to you by default to open shortcuts. And now there are Jump Lists. . . . OK. Whatever." Head over to Bryan's blog and let him know your thoughts on Windows 7.

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  • Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack found in the wild Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 07/06/2009

    Microsoft today issued a warning about an attack that is occurring in the wild against its Video ActiveX Control in Internet Explorer running on XP and Windows Server 2003. (Vista and Windows Server 2008 are not affected.) The company has not rated this vulnerability, although it has some of the earmarks of a critical hole, in that an attacker could gain the same rights as a user, execute code and do so without a user's interaction. At the same time, the company is downplaying the seriousness of the attack because it is easily mitigated and the default security settings of Internet Explorer also restrict a hacker's ability to take advantage of it.

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  • Microsoft yanks 10 old patches down; smells like anti-Linux FUD Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Wed, 07/01/2009

    With nearly no explanation, Microsoft sent out an alert notifying customers that it was removing download information for 10 security patches "because Microsoft Java Virtual Machine is no longer available for distribution from Microsoft." The revised bulletins are rated as critical and affect patches from the years 1999 through 2003.

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