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Links: Street View downunder; no Olympic satellite view for China

Australia, Japan get Street View: Amazing — Australia is now smothered in blue Street View lines in Google Maps — including some of the most out-of-the-way places you can imagine: View Larger Map The Australian's take: "Privacy advocates say Google's gone too far," though not, it turns out, Australia's Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner, which thinks Google's approach is fair dinkum enough. Japan too gets some of its main cities covered. Thanks to Claudia Carvalho for the tip. Olym-p...

Safeguard your PC using the free PC Tools AntiVirus 5

Who needs to purchase security software when developers are giving their applications away for free? Last week we put the new and update PC Tools Spyware Doctor 6 Starter Edition online, which is a free anti-spyware tool that is supplied with unlimited definition updates. You're not suddenly going to turn your PC on one day and find out that the software has expired and, thus, your computer is now unprotected. You can also grab yourself a free firewall from PC Tools. PC Tools AntiVirus 5 Free is...

Firewall vendors scramble to fix DNS problem

Nearly a month after a critical flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System was first reported, vendors of some of the most widely used firewall software are scrambling to fix a problem that can essentially undo part of the patches that address this bug.

Great Firewall of China casts shadow on Olympics coverage

Despite a recent promise from Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympics Committee (IOC), that there would be no internet censorship for foreign media covering the events of the Beijing Olympics, the official line from the IOC is that "some sensitive sites would be blocked on the basis they were not considered Games-related."

New version of PC Tools Internet Security 2009 now available

What's happening with PC Tools? Most software developers are lucky if they release a new app every few months. With PC Tools, we've seen Spyware Doctor 6, Registry Mechanic 8, Personal Firewall 4 and a brand new Disk Suite 2009, in the last four weeks. This can only be a good thing and, as users get free updates within their subscription period, no-one can complain they have to pay for an upgrade. PC Tools Internet Security 2009 is a complete suite of security software designed to protect your P...

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Some Services May Fail to Start or May Not Work Properly After Installing MS08-037 (951746 and 951748)

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay, Damian Leibaschoff, Justin Crosby and Chris Puckett] Some customers have reported seeing random problems with services after installing MS08-037. In one case, Exchange Always Up To Date notifications for activesync were failing and in other cases the IPSEC or the IAS services were failing to start. In the case of the AUTD issue, you will see events similar to the following in the application event log: Event Type: Error Event Source: Server ActiveS...

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DNS and SQL Updates

Microsoft released four security updates yesterday. The DNS update is noteworthy as it's part of a significant multi-vendor effort. There will be lots of patching going on as a result. The MS08-037 update reportedly conflicts with ZoneAlarm's firewall software. Proceed with caution if you have ZA installed. All of this month's updates are rated as important. The SQL update is of interest to us what with the recent SQL Security Advisory and the rise in Mass SQL injection attacks. Microsoft is wo...

iPhoning it in from our other blog.

I've been blogging about my first experiences with the iPhone 2.0 software over at IT Pro: I've been spending some time with the iPhone 2.0 software, and I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised with many of the new enterprise features. Setting up an iPhone to connect to an Exchange server was quick, and relatively painless. Apple's implementation of ActiveSync supports self-issued server certificates directly, and so smaller businesses can work the CEO's iPhone without having to set up an expensi...