Gosh, I missed it :-) I expected it to come in a few days but now it is here and downloadable. IE 7 Beta 2 Preview. I would really like you to download it and test your websites with it before we release it. Due to the dramatically improved security, there are websites that do not work anymore as expected.

Sometimes we have some rather inexpected results and it often gets worse if IE7 is run in "Restricted Mode" in Vista.

The download is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx

If you want to know more about IE7, I ran a webcast which is recorded and can be accessed here: https://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/Register.aspx?culture=de-CH&EventID=118766036&CountryCode=CH

BTW: If you want to know more about IPSec: The webcast is tomorrow at 16:00. Register here: http://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/technet/de/events.mspx

Roger

There is still significant chatter regarding MyWife (or how ever it is called). The disruption could be pretty significant as it tries to corrupt certain files at the third of each month starting this Friday.

It is spread by making use of social engineering techniques by sending a mail where the user has to open an attachment.

We do not see too many infections at the moment and if you have the latest virus definitions you should be protected.

Nevertheless we posted an Advisory tonight: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/904420.mspx

Roger

Slashdot asked their readers to post questions for Mike Nash, our VP of the Security Technology Unit. This lead to a pretty good interview: http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/26/131246

Roger

Our Anti-Malware-Team posted information about MyWife (or how ever you want to call it) in their blog: http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware/

Roger

A new keylogging trojan is racing around the world - It is a variant of the Keylog-sters trojan that appeared almost a year ago and has been classified as high risk by security company PC Tools. It captures screenshots of Web pages with login fields such as usernames and passwords, records the stolen data into a text file and uploads it to a private FTP server...

"This is a regular keylogging trojan, but we have not seen one as widespread as this," said a company spokeswoman. "So far there have only been a few hundred cases in Australia, but thousands in the US and UK and other countries." Top banks, mobile phone companies, and airlines are among those already affected in over 50 countries, including Australia. A large part of the problem with keylogging trojans is that desktop users receive no obvious indicators that they have been affected, leaving many unaware of the potential security breach.

http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=5191

Urs