Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 12, 2006

Microsoft security updates for December 2006
(December 12, 2006)

  • MS06-072 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer (KB925454)
  • MS06-073 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio (KB925674)
  • MS06-074 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB926247)
  • MS06-075 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB926255)
  • MS06-076 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB923694)
  • MS06-077 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB926121)
  • MS06-078 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Media Player (KB923689 and KB925398)
  • MS06-059 (re-release) – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Office (KB924164)

VideoLAN: VLC 0.8.6 is Released

VLC 0.8.6 is Released

VLC Download Page
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
From VideoLAN

Changes:
——–

Playlist:
* Vastly improved playlist support:
* Media library support
* “Live search”
* Shoutcast TV listings
* Audioscrobbler/last.fm support

Video output:
* Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
* New puzzle video output filter

Interfaces:
* Windows/Linux
* Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
* All
* Improved user interaction

(I’ll clean up this post later)

AVG Anti-Virus Free 7.5 is Now Available

Grisoft has made AVG Anti-Virus Free 7.5 available for download. The commercial version was released a few weeks before.

From Grisoft:

New in AVG 7.5

  • Improved virus detection based on better heuristics and NTFS data streams scanning
  • Smaller installation and update files
  • Improved user interface
  • Windows Vista ready
  • and more

Get it at http://free.grisoft.com/