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Archive for June 19th, 2008

Want XP on your new Dell? $50, please

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

You read correctly. Dell will start charging customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some of their PCs, Computerworld reports today.
Consumers interested in the bargain-basement Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a “downgrade” from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate than [...]

Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

It’s not all about world records for Firefox 3.0.
Just hours after the official release of the latest refresh of Mozilla’s flagship browser, an unnamed researcher has sold a critical code execution vulnerability that puts millions of Firefox3.0 users at risk of PC takeover attacks.
According to a note from TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) , a [...]

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