Monday, March 1st, 2010
The MSRC Engineering team has been investigating reports of a vulnerability involving the use of VBScript and Windows Help files. »
Tags: browser, browsing, exploit, explorer, internet, manager, trusted, unsafe file format, update, user, vbscript, windows, zone
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
The city of Derby in England learned what happens when you hold a world-wide online poll to determine the name of one of your roads. A bunch of computer gaming dorks weigh in and then you end up with most of the 27,000 votes going to Lara Croft. Here's the reaction from Derby... »
Tags: breasts, city, city-councillor, computer-gaming, culture, dorks-weigh, extreme computing, overrun-poll, reaction, upon-learning
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Greed Corp is available now for Xbox Live and the Playstation Store (assuming your Playstation can get online ). What might look like a detailed fantasy strategy game is no such thing. Don't be fooled by the production values, evident in the screenshots but particularly as you're playing »
Tags: detailed, dorks-weigh, latest games, might-look, overrun-poll, reaction, unique-factions, upon-learning
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
No current generation Windows Mobile 6.5.x phones will be upgradeable to Windows Phone 7, according to Microsoft. This sort of dashes the hopes of some who expected the HTC HD2, at least, to be upgradeable. Sorry, but it ain't happening »
Tags: asia, business, current, despite-the-hd2, experience, microsoft, mobile, phone, smartphone, windows, windows mobile, windows phones 7 series, windows-phone
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Volume III starts today in Lord of the Rings Online's epic quest line, which serves as a parallel storyline to Frodo carrying the Ring to Mt. Doom. »
Tags: along-the-epic, extreme computing, heads, heads-together, latest games, might-look, rings, the-skirmishes
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
The fantastic and fantastically named Gratuitous Space Battles just got a little more gratuitous with the addition of a new race of religious aliens on a holy war. »
Tags: addition, along-the-epic, bullets-which, cruiser-rockets, expansion, faster-firing, fighters, heads-together, impact, latest games, might-look, similar-effect, space, the-skirmishes, video
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
The wallet threat level for the general gamer is fairly low this week. Supreme Commander 2 is a bit generic and awfully traditional, but it fixes a lot of problems that could make the first Supreme Commander hard to like. »
Tags: bit-generic, commander, joins-the-ranks, latest games, level-yellow, looks-really, make-the-first, news, ranks, supreme-commander, the-general, thing, wallet-threat, you-absolutely, your-team-based
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Math is hard. »
Tags: back-online, metric, orbiter-because, playstation, playstation 3, regular, the-orbiter, twitter
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Revision Note: V1.0 (March 1, 2010): Advisory published. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in VBScript that is exposed on supported versions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 through the use of Internet Explorer. Our investigation has shown that the vulnerability cannot be exploited on... »
Tags: 2003-through, customer-impact, internet, microsoft, new-public, remote-code, reported, revision-note, security-patches, summary, through-the-use, windows, windows-server, windows-vista
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