OT but important for all net users

[Richard Brekne]

Hi folks

This being an internett based list its pertainant to post from time to 
time relavant links to information about internett security.  All of us 
know the pain in the arse all these virus storms cause for us all, and 
many of us do our very best to keep our puters up to date. 

Microsoft has newly released the following links which you should visit.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-011.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-007.mspx

In addition these advisory links are recommended

http://www.norman.com/Virus/Security_Advisory/12744
http://www.lurhq.com/lsassadvisory.html

Lots of new virus variants are on the loose, and so if you are useing a 
windows based machine you should defininatly run your updates as soon as 
possible.

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

In addition... for computer savvy folks using XP the following link is 
very very usefull and provides in depth information on how to turn off 
many of XP's un-needed services.

http://www.blackviper.com/

Cheers

RicB