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36883 2002-02-24 08:11:00 Microsoft has issued two new security updates at Windows Update. The updates are primarily for IE 6.0 and deal with the the following issues. The first one takes care of a security flaw in the XMLHTTP ActiveX control. For more detail take a look at Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-008. The second update eliminates a security vulnerability related to VBScript handling on systems running Windows 2000 and XP. Details are in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-009.

VoidYourWarranty has reviewed a new backup software program for your PC. The products name is BackUp MyPC and it functions in much the same way as Ghost and Drive Image, it will even backup your files to cdr or cdrw.www.voidyourwarranty.net

Gyro Tweak have posted up a Tribute to 3dfx, whose website shut it's doors this past week. The tribute looks at the history of the company and bids a final farewell.www.gyrotweak.com

AMD has announced a new chipset known as the AMD-8000, which will support the first 64bit AMD Hammer CPUs. Production of AMD-8000 will start in Quarter 4 of this year, coinciding with the launching of the new ClawHammer processor. The chipset runs the AMD-8111 HyperTransport I/O hub, AMD-8131 HyperTransport PCI-X tunnel and AMD- 8151 HyperTransport AGP3.0 graphics tunnel (the memory controller is located in the CPU, as you know).

Tweak-XP 1.23 is out with the following changes and updates:
Lots of new tweaks and a new tweak section added (Windows tweaks II)
New tweaks added to the modem tweaks and hardware tweaks section
Wanadoo and Tiscali modem tweaks added
Processor check-routine tweak added to the hardware tweaks
Fixed a problem with one of the cache tweaks
Some changes to the optimization wizard
Changes to the CPU tweaks
Changes to the Ad-Blocker
Updated Ad-Blocker server list
Lots of changes to the user interface
Smaller main executable
Smaller setup package
Changes to the internet updater
Updated language files
You can download the new version from this page.www.totalidea.de

Microsoft has released a patch to fix a problem in Windows 2000 that prevents certain devices from working when your PC resumes from standby mode. Full details are in Knowledge Base Article Q311537 and it affects the following software:
Microsoft Windows versions 2000 , 2000 SP1 , 2000 SP2 , Professional
Microsoft Windows versions 2000 , 2000 SP1 , 2000 SP2 , Server
Microsoft Windows versions 2000 , 2000 SP1 , 2000 SP2 , Advanced Server
You can grab the update here.download.microsoft.com

Want to convert your DVD's to SVCD format, but don't know how ? Well this program called DVD2SVCD will do the job for you. Here's some dirt on the program:

DVD2SVCD is a completely automated frontend for converting DVD, PVA and AVI files to SVCD. By completely automated, I mean, you just select the file or dvd you want converted and hit GO, everything else is taken care of by the frontend.
Convert DVD to SVCD
Convert AVI to SVCD
Convert PVA to SVCD (PVA files is DVB captured files)
Converting from NTSC to PAL
Support for 2 audio streams
Support for subtitles. SVCD, CVD and permanent subtitles
Support for chapters. Both DVD chapters and fixed chapters
Support for Titlepicture and Change CD picture
Support for making overlapped CD's
Support for downsampling audio from 48000 to 44100
And a lot more.
Grab it here.http://dvd2svcd.doom9.net/

Intel has released new graphics drivers (version 6.6) for motherboards running integrated graphics on i810/i815 chipsets motherboards. The drivers are for W9x/ME/2000/XP. Get them from the following links:
- Windows 9x/ME downloadfinder.intel.com
- Windows 2000/XP appsr.intel.com
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