Security Vulnerability Watching Online Videos, Games

If you are using Adobe Flash Player to view videos over the internet, like youtube, googlevideos, play games etc, you might want to update your Adobe Flash Player to the latest version- 9,0,124,0.
Vulnerability description:
"Integer overflow in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and earlier, and 8.0.39.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SWF file with a negative Scene Count value, which passes a signed comparison, is used as an offset of a NULL pointer, and triggers a buffer overflow".
Above Description extracted from this page Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.
Adobe's response More information on recent Flash Player exploit.
Check your version of Adobe Flash Player here.
Download the latest version of adobe flash player at Adobe Flash Player Download site. No uninstall is necessary, just install the latest Flash Player.

Diagnostic and Installation Utilities

Every computer components has a certain lifespan. Listed here are some of the more useful utilities to diagnose and evaluate pc components. Some indications of a component failure includes:

• Computer hangs during normal usage


• Computer restarting by itself

Listed below are some of the more popular memory testing programs. These programs require some basic computer knowledge and experience to perform. The utilities usually need to start from a clean boot environment. The downloaded files from the various sites below will create the necessary bootable disk.

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Memmory Testing Utilities

Memory Tester86

This is a stand alone memory tester.
The default bios based memory tester on most mainboard normally do not show all memory failure. This application does a more complete Job.

http://www.memtest86.com/

Windows Memory Diagnostic
This program by Microsoft, does a thorough test
on the memory modules in a PC.
Details on Installation Instructions and usage..
These program is available for download at this link

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

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Harddisk Utilities

Seagate seatools
Diagnostic Hard disk utility from Seagate- support seagate harddisks.
Performs diagnostic test to check reliability of disk media.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

IBM/Hitachi Drive Fitness Testing Utilities
Diagnostic Hard disk utility to test most Ibm Harddisk. Click Drive Fitness to download "Diskette creater for windows OS". This file creates a bootable floppy diskette. Boot from floppy drive with the diskette and follow the instruction to check HD drive fitness.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm/

Reasons to zero fill hard drives:

• Virus attack that cannot be removed
  without destroying the boot sector.


• Changing from one operating system to another
  and wish to remove everything from the drive.


• Zero Fill will destroy all data, clear master
  boot record and remove all partition tables.

Most harddisk manufacturers will a host a list of support utilities to test drive fitness and fully wipe the harddisk clean of data.

Links to Harddisk Manufacturers

Seagate | Maxtor | Hitachi | Western digital

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