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NEWS - December 16, 2005

by roddy32 Dec 16, 2005 11:08AM PST

Microsoft patch jams up IE
By Joris Evers, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: December 16, 2005, 5:21 PM PT

Last Tuesday's "critical" security fix for Internet Explorer is causing trouble for users who have been testing the new IE 7 browser.

Microsoft has received "scattered reports of users experiencing odd browser behavior" after installing the latest security update, Jeremy Dallman, project manager for Internet Explorer security at the company, wrote in a Friday posting to a corporate blog.

Three different problems have been reported: The browser could crash right after starting up; links may come up blank; or multiple windows may open when the browser is initiated, according to the posting.

"After investigating several of these reports, we have traced these issues to a common source," Dallman wrote. The culprit is IE 7, the next version of Microsoft's Web browser, which is in beta testing. The problems occur only if IE 7 is installed on a machine alongside IE 6. That double-IE configuration is not supported by the fix, according to Dallman's note.

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Dasher worm gallops onto the Net

by roddy32 Dec 16, 2005 11:14AM PST

By Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: December 16, 2005, 4:33 PM PT

A Windows-targeted worm that drops spying software on vulnerable PCs is spreading across the Internet, security experts have warned.

The Dasher.B worm exploits a flaw in Microsoft Windows Distributed Transaction Coordinator, or MDTC, security companies said Friday. Microsoft announced and patched the hole in the component for transaction processing in October. However, initial glitches with the update may have left some users without a properly implemented fix, Sophos said.

"The worry is that the problems with the patch may have prevented it from being successfully rolled out onto some vulnerable computers," Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at the security company, said in a statement.

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