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Vista’s Service Pack 2 Beta Released

vista-bandaid Microsoft’s newest band aid … er service pack for Vista has been released for beta testing for Technet subscribers and will be released for public testing December 4th. It looks like this is more of a release rollup and a fix what we broke earlier service pack.

“more traditional release rolling up improvements delivered to users via Windows Update and via our hardware and software partners, while also addressing feedback from our customers,”
- Microsoft

Source: PCMag

Important VMWare Security Exploit

vmware.gifCore Security has the full report but if your using VMWare Workstation, Player, or ACE on Windows there is a security exploit in the shared folders feature that allows a traversing of folders not being shared. According to VMWare until a patch is release there is this workaround.

To disable shared folders in the Global settings:

  1. From the VMware product’s menu, choose Edit > Preferences.
  2. In the Workspace tab, under Virtual Machines, deselect the checkbox for Enable all shared folders by default.

To disable shared folders for the individual virtual machine settings:

  1. From the VMware product’s menu, choose VM > Settings.
  2. In the Options tab, select Shared Folders and Disable.
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