Duffy's Rant Netcast

Well, I knew it would happen sooner or later.

If you happen to have a Dell LCD monitor, don’t be too shocked if you find a padlock on your screen and alternately opens and closes.

that’s the OSD lock and it’s FUBARd!  Great engineering, Dell!  Anyhow, there ARE some fixes, but some are rather long and boring.  This one seems to work more often than not:

Go to the control panel (start, settings, control panel) and then click on display.  Now this is important.  change the resolution to the highest that the computer will let you do, click apply and then OK.

Go and chage the resolution back to what it was and again, click on apply and then OK.  If it doesn’t take the first time, do it again.

This should take out the padlock.  Oh, DON’T TOUCH THE BUTTONS ON THE MONITOR!!!!!  Do that and guess what comes back and, this time, may not be so easy to remove.

Okay, if you were in the market for security software, better look elsewhere.  Intel is going to buy McAfee.

<a href=”http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-us-intel-mcafee-acquisition,0,791505.story”>McAfee Bought</a>

I remember when a security update from Microsoft would always be a big one.

Well, looks like, on august 10, they’re going back to the hugemongous patch day.

Here’s the dope from SANS:

 –Microsoft to Issue 14 Security Bulletins on August 10
(August 5, 2010)
On Tuesday, August 10, Microsoft will release 14 security bulletins to
address a record-setting 34 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows,
Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office and the Microsoft Silverlight
development platform.  Eight of the bulletins are rated critical; the
other six are rated important.  The flaws could be exploited to allow
remote code execution or privilege elevation.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-aug.mspx

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180210/Microsoft_slates_record_setting_monster_Patch_Tuesday_next_week?taxonomyId=17

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/05/microsoft_august_2010_patch_tuesday/

[Editor's Note (Skoudis): A record!  How exciting.  Actually... not.
Does it feel to you like we're moving backwards here?  It does to me.]

I agree, Ed.

There is a new zero-day exploit that affects ALL versions of Windows and it’s the icon shortcut.

Here’s the article in NetworkWorld about it:

<a href+”http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/new-rootkit-threatens-all-versions-windows?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2010-07-19″>Windows Exploit</a>