Small Computing for the Holidays

Wow, a plethora of small notebooks, netbooks, ultra-mobile PCs [umpc's] and mini-notebooks, holy smokes......are about to be dumped on the world...yes dumped...listen to the numbers. Some predicting over 5 million mini laptops this year to be sold and over 8 million next year sold. The prices are expectably honed to less tha $500. Wow, take a seat folks!

Microsoft's Urgent "Out-of-Band" Security Update

Earlier today Microsoft announced that it has released an urgent "out-of-band" security update. The update is considered "critical" for Windows XP and older operating systems and "important" for Windows Vista version.

Users should consider emergency patching procedures as Microsoft reports that although the vulnerability is limited it could be exploited by old-school techniques such as worm invasions that could attack and leave a system heavily damaged.

PCVDs' Dallas Computer Repair Boot CD

PC Virus Doctors' Dallas computer repair has built a Tech Boot CD that will test hardware, such as drives, motherboards, cpu's and other hardware to quickly diagnose problems. Then a folder on the CD contains hundreds of tools that are proven the best to remove trojans, viruses, spyware, adware and malware.

There are office programs, data recovery software, graphics tools and other programs that rival "paid for" programs that offer the same tools. This is a complete CD for any user whether a newbie or expert with included instructions. The CD is available packaged and delivered for a reasonable price of $24.99.

The tools have been grouped by category in specific folders for easy availability and installation:

(1) PC Virus Doctors instructions for the Tech BOOT CD, (2) Anti-Virus', (3) Firewalls, (4) Internet & Windows Cleaners, (5) Internet PopUp Controllers, (6) Anti-Spam, (7) Spy & Adware Removers or Blockers, (8) Security Tools, (9) Network & Internet Tools, (10) Disk Wipers, (11) Performance Tools, (12) Hardware & System Monitoring Tools, (13) Benchmark & Test Tools, (14) Registry Cleaners, (15) Office Utilities, (16) Graphics Tools, (17) Back Up Tools, (18) Password Recovery, (19) Lost/Deleted File Recovery, (20) Virus/Trojan/Worm Removers, (21) Activity Monitors, (22) PDA Freeware, (23) Audio Players & CD Burners, (24) Computer Tips and (25) Games.

New Windows and Apple Vulnerability Update

InformationWeek.com reports that Microsoft will fix 44 issues while Apple updated 11 vulnerabilities with Security Update 2008-007 . Microsoft will release its update tomorrow for "update Tuesday".

Apple addresses security issues in Postfix, PSNormalizer, QuickLook, Apache, Single Sign-On, Tomcat, Certificates, ClamAV, ColorSync, CUPS, Finder, launchd, libxslt, MySQL Server, Networking, PHP, rlogin, Script Editor, vim, and Weblog.

Microsoft reports that six fixes are "important" addressing privilege elevation and remote code execution while one is considered "moderate" having to address information disclosure. .