A flaw in Microsoft's DirectShow technology, allowing a hacker Web site to infect a visitor's PC, is a vulnerability that remains uncorrected in the Redmond company's Patch Tuesday updates this week. Fortunately, you can visit a Microsoft Knowledge Base article for a workaround that will close the hole, at the expense of disabling some QuickTime functionality.
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The title of "Entrepreneur of the Year" was awarded to Brian Livingston, editor of the Windows Secrets Newsletter, at the 6th annual Internet Content Summit in New York City on May 8, 2006.
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Spam-Proof Your E-Mail Address, 3rd Ed., describes little-known, cost-free techniques that can prevent about 97% of the spam that would ordinarily clog an e-mail account. The methods described in Brian Livingston's 32-page e-book require no costly antispam filters or hard-to-maintain block lists.
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