Desktop
Microsoft on Tuesday said that hackers could exploit the unpatched Windows shortcut vulnerability using drive-by download attacks that would trigger an infection when people simply surf to a malicious Web site.
A noted vulnerability researcher today confirmed that such attacks are possible.
In the revised security advisory published yesterday Microsoft acknowledged the new attack vector.
The second edition of the OpenOffice.org 3 Writer Guide (updated for OOo V3.2) was published in March. PDFs of the full book and the individual chapters are on the Documentation wiki.
The printed edition of the book is available at low cost from Lulu.com.
I would not ordinarily post an announcement about software beta releases, but this is interesting.
The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.3.10, the tenth of several unstable 2.3.x releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.4.0. With this new release series, GnuCash can use an SQL database using SQLite3, MySQL or PostgreSQL. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.
Software for use on the desktop
I feel as though I have been waiting for Thunderbird 3 for ever - but now it is finally out there. This article in Network World discusses some of the new Thunderbird direction and features.
I have installed on top the default Kubuntu Thunderbird 2 (after backing up the .mozilla-thunderbird directory) a couple of days ago, and, apart from a couple of small problems, it has worked well.
Mozilla Thunderbird email client home page. Latest news, links and downloads.
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