Determina has released an unofficial patch for the Microsoft Internet Explorer WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX vulnerability (also known as the setSlice() vulnerability).  Download from Determina .
The patch can be applied to Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2000.
After applying the patch you can test that it works by visiting this test page .  Unpatched versions of Internet Explorer will crash.
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UPDATE: Unofficial patch available from Determina.
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More stuff to worry about.  This time a vulnerability again relating to Internet Explorer called setSlice().  This relates to a flaw in webvw.dll.  So far there's little in the way of info from Microsoft but there is a tool that has been developed by SANS  that will disable it easily (download [...]

Most of you will know that people running older operating systems like Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 SP3 no longer get any patch love from Microsoft because there are out-of-support products.
However, Zeroday Emergency Response Team (ZERT) is offering VML/vgx.dll security patches for these outdated operating systems.  If you are [...]

Sony has done what I've been expecting it to do for a few weeks now - it has issued a global recall of all lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries  used in notebooks. 
Withe the Dell, Toshiba, Apple and Lenovo recall Sony was looking at replacing around 7 million batteries.  This recall is bound to dramatically increase that [...]

Interesting post on TechWeb :

Microsoft's decision to push Internet Explorer 7 to users with its Auto Updates mechanism will mean "inevitable" problems for Web sites during the critical holiday selling season, the chief executive of a Web services firm said Friday. "I applaud what Microsoft's done with IE 7, and the browser works very well," said [...]

What do you think of this BitDefender dialog box:

Take a closer look at it:

That's the dialog box that appears in BitDefender Internet Security version 10 when you try to delete a task.  I've confirmed and replicated the same problem on two different systems.
In a situation like this it's good to remember that ENTER = OK [...]