Day: July 22, 2006

Vista Views: Symantec’s bug hunt | CNET News.com

Vista Views: Symantec’s bug hunt | CNET News.com For more info on this subject click on the above link Windows chief Jim Allchin has urged people to buy Vista for its security features, saying that it will have better protections against phishing attacks, spyware and other malicious code. It’s a savvy move on Microsoft’s part, as the company’s products have borne the brunt of hackers’ attentions. But this week, Symantec said that it had poked around in the networking stack of the latest Vista beta and found lots of bugs. It concluded that in the short term,

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Rootkits get better at hiding | Tech News on ZDNet

Rootkits get better at hiding | Tech News on ZDNet For More info clcik on above link A new Trojan horse is so good at hiding itself that some security researchers claim a new chapter has begun in their battle against malicious-code authors. The new pest, dubbed “Rustock” by Symantec and “Mailbot.AZ” by F-Secure, uses “rootkit” techniques crafted to avoid the detection technology used by security software, Symantec and F-Secure said in recent analyses.

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Worm lurks behind MySpace profiles – ZDNet

Worm lurks behind MySpace profiles | Tech News on ZDNet For more info click on above link A worm is targeting MySpace users, compromising their “About me” pages and infecting visitors to them, Symantec has warned. When a logged-in MySpace user goes to another member’s “About me” page affected by the ACTS.Spaceflash worm, they are quietly redirected to a URL that holds a malicious Macromedia Flash file, the security company said in an advisory on Spaceflash Tuesday. That file, in turn, will replace the visitor’s own “About me” page with one that is compromised.

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Family entertainment rounds out exciting APHA show

Largest Paint Horse show on earth finishes successful 14-day run FORT WORTH, TEXAS— With 1,738 horses competing, the World Championship Paint Horse Show maintained its status as the largest Paint Horse show on earth after a successful 14-day run June 25 through July 8 at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth. The show is an annual non-qualifying event open to APHA Regular Registry horses and Solid Paint-Bred Registry horses, with separate classes for the two registries. There were 4,524 total entries at the World Show, including 1,400 Youth, 1,467 Open, 1,438 Amateur and Novice Amateur,

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Ford Rebate for AQHA Members Just Got Better!

Ford has served as the official cars, trucks and Sports Utility Vehicles of AQHA since 2002. New this year, Ford is the title sponsor of the Ford American Quarter Horse Youth Association World Championship Show and continues as a sponsor of the AQHA World Championship Show and the MBNA^® America Racing Challenge. Ford also supports the American Quarter Horse Foundation Scholarship Program and is presenting sponsor of the AQHA Regional Experience.

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TOP 100 MOMENTS” PANELISTS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON “TALKIN’ HORSES”

TOP 100 MOMENTS” PANELISTS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON NEXT WEDNESDAY’S BLOODHORSE.COM “TALKIN’ HORSES” Lexington, KY — In a special edition of bloodhorse.com “Talkin’ Horses,” Bill Nack, John McEvoy and Eclipse Press editor Jacqueline Duke, members of the selection committee from the Exclusively Equine http://www.exclusivelyequine.com best-seller /Horse Racing’s Top 100 Moments http://www.exclusivelyequine.com/ee.asp?PI=B11-1110, published by Eclipse Press http://www.eclipsepress.com, answer your questions about the selection process and share their thoughts on the memorable moments that make Thoroughbred racing such a fascinating sport. Read their insightful answers on the next edition of bloodhorse.com “Talkin’ Horses,” *Wednesday, July 26 beginning at Noon

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REMEMBER ME ROSE HEADS TO RAINBOW WITH PERFECT RECORD ON THE LINE

July 20, 2006 – Although her trial time was the seventh-best, Remember Me Rose is already a stakes winner and the only undefeated finalist to the Rainbow Futurity (G1), and could be the favorite in the $625,000 event Sunday at Ruidoso Downs. Owned by Azoom LP, the Veracruz, Mexico, partnership of Enrique Carrion and Alejandro Barradas, and conditioned by Ben Torres, Remember Me Rose began her racing career in Mexico, breaking her maiden and winning by a dramatic 2 3/4 lengths and setting the fastest qualifying mark of :17.16 in her 350-yard Ford Mexico Juvenile Challenge trial. 

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American Paint Horse and loving owner weather the storm

Heather Lott-Goodwin and her American Paint Horse gelding, PBJ Decks Smokin Gun, are Hurricane Katrina survivors who weathered the storm to compete at the 2006 World Championship Paint Horse Show.

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