http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Facebook-vulnerability-allowed-silent-webcam-recording-1776927.html

exploited by an attacker to record video from a victim's webcam and then post it to their timeline without requesting their permission. The social network operator doesn't seem to have been in any great hurry – security researchers Aditya Gupta and Subho Halder say that they informed the company of the problem four months ago.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/microsoft_releases_workaround_video_activex_vulnerability_can_pwn_your_pc

Microsoft Releases Workaround for Video ActiveX Vulnerability That Can Pwn Your PC
Posted 07/07/2009 at 5:40pm | by Mark Edward Soper
Microsoft rolls out workaround for Video ActiveX vulnerability in IE6, IE7

This week, Microsoft announced that DirectShow ActiveX code in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that was reserved for future use has finally been used - by malware providers. The DirectShow Video ActiveX control in the msvidctr.dll file can be used to take over your system if you visit an infected website. According to Symantec, thousands of websites (primarily in China and other parts of Asia) have been affected.

Who's vulnerable? According to Microsoft Knowledge Base article 972890, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3, and Windows XP 64-bit edition are at risk if they haven't upgraded to IE8. IE8 is not vulnerable because the DirectShow ActiveX control being exploited was disabled in IE8. But, if you're still running IE7 (or - horrors! - IE6), what now?

Although Microsoft doesn't have a software patch, it's offering the next best thing: visit KB article 972890 to download and run Microsoft Fix it control 50287 to work around the problem (the same site also offers Microsoft Fix it control 50288 to disable the workaround).

or up date to IE8 and get Firefox

Only SMB 2 in Windows 7 is affected.
Vista is not affected

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10397759-245.html (November 13, 2009)

The advisory suggests that customers block Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, ports 139 and 445 at the firewall, as a workaround until a patch is ready.

Microsoft on Friday said it is working on a fix for a vulnerability in the Server Message Block file-sharing protocol in Windows 7 remotely crash a computer.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140858/Microsoft_confirms_first_Windows_7_zero_day_bug

Microsoft criticized the way Gaffi? handled the discovery.

Windows is not that bad try Mac for bug's

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139465/Bugs_Fixes_Solving_Safari_cookie_problems

Bugs & Fixes: Solving Safari cookie problems on new Snow Leopard

http://www.macworld.com/article/143286/2009/10/sldataloss.html

Since Snow Leopard’s release, a few users have reported a scary data loss incident related to using the Guest account. Basically, after upgrading to Snow Leopard with an existing Guest account in Leopard, these users logged into their Guest accounts, then back into their normal accounts, only to find all of their data gone—none of their files were there,
all preferences were reset, and all programs acted like they were being launched for the first time ever.

I think my head just exploded.

I think it got me earlier today. I was taking a nap and woke up to see my computer caught in endless set of loops. It looked as if it was trying to access a program, but

was being denied or it was closing a program and it was being denied. It was strange.
It kept popping up some sort of failed to execute or access,

I was just waking up so was still foggy. I quickly hit control-alt-delete, but that didn't work so yank the power and rebooted.

No virus after several scans- I guess I was invaded. bastar@#@#

The strange thing is lots of shortcuts are missing, at least half, so half my programs arent showing although they there and working, except system mechanic.
It took out system mechanic for what ever reason.

I just thought of why I might be able to reset with iolos, I couldnt do it with windows.

Thanks for the post hotdoge

This is by far the the most useful one yet, guess cause it it affect me real time.lol
Thanks any though txnnok
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Terri218,

With all the technology getting a boost the hackers get a boost too. The programmers machines on the dark side on running faster and excuting code quicker.

They infiltrate all of computers and just sit till needed and create a bot net. Which is millions of computers working at the same time. Which is way faster than than any super computer, not to mention that they can flood any server with request and shut it down.

Those guys guys are getting faster and smarter and some work as teams.
+ imagine group after group of these popping week after. Or if just 10 guys took or 30 computers a week.

Hotdoge could probably find the real stats and I bet they are way way higher, even with good guys fixing computers and people fixing their own.

Wasn't the whole point of changing to Windows 7 was to make it safer?

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/11/13/microsoft-investigating-zero-day-windows-7-hole

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10346664-83.html

zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 and Vista.

The flaw in Windows 7 could allow an attack which would cause a critical system error, or "blue screen of death," according to researcher Laurent Gaffie.

Gaffie wrote in his blog that the flaw lies in a Server Message Block 2 (SMB2) driver.

"SRV2.SYS fails
http://g-laurent.blogspot.com/2009/11/windows-7-server-2008r2-remote-kernel.html