Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - Posts
This is a curious fact signalled to me by Andrea Boschin... it's really curious and I'd like to know if someone know something about it.
There's an Oracle (version 9 and 10) process called nmupm.exe that, if you've the .NET Framework SDK installed on your machine, hogs the CPU (100%) and never quits. This seems to be caused by an incompatibility between the .NET SDK and Oracle Enterprise Manager. The suggestions given on forums are to uninstalling the .NET SDK (not a good choice).
Someone have news about this? Really interesting to know how to solve this...
If you're a Firefox (or Thunderbird) user and you're not sure to update to the last releases (expecially for Firefox, the 1.0SR release number could appear not to be totally stable but it's not true), this fact can you change your ideas: Secunia (great people 
) has a new advisory about some buffer overflow exploits in the Mozilla and Thunderbird code.
What is curious is that one of these exploits takes advantage of a unchecked buffer in the bitmap parser, very similar to the recent Microsoft JPEG vulnerability discovered in these days. The good news is that if you have installed one of the last releases (Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0PR, Thunderbird 0.8) you won't be affected by these explois! 
What are you waiting to update your browser?
An interesting Secure Socket Layer (SSL) troubleshooting tool for IIS has been released from Microsoft today: SSL Diagnostics 1.0.
This tool helps an IIS administrator configuring and troubleshooting SSL enabled websites.
This tool allows users to review configuration information in a easy to read view mode or to run the tool silently with only the creation of a log file. During use, administrators can simulate the SSL handshake to find errors. They can also quickly "hot swap" certificates for testing purposes.
There are 2 packages forms: Express and Full. The Express Package will only give the pertinent tools for administrators to use SSL Diagnostics while the Full Package installs the same files with the appropriate documentation.
Interesting to have!