- Netbook user guide/top ten programs 5mx

- Netbook dispute # 1313 (2)

- Re Security issues]

Date: 1/12/2009 7:37 AM
From:<address truncated>
Subject: Netbook user guide/top ten programs 5mx

A big thank you for replying to my posting about the top ten programs for the 5mx. I now have most of them installed .

I have also purchased a netbook with no user manual . Where can I get a manual from?

What top 10 programs should I now install on the "Netbook"

john

Date: 1/12/2009 6:37 PM
From:<address truncated>
Subject: Netbook dispute # 1313 (2)

AfaIk it's their word creation; it is a legal issue and the lawyers will
decide whether the claim is acceptable. I don't understand you and all I can
say is: I still boast around with my MX; I'd be glad to hear Psion will
produce a new "netbook" (as this seems to inidcate); and I'd be sorry to
hear that one of the last Psion outlets in Europe is closing for shame.

I don't have anytning else to say - all the forums are ull of comments,
legal and otherwise. Wait and see and stay well,
:-)

best,

vlad a

Date: 14 Jan 2009 10:04:59 +0000
From: Mike Robins <address truncated>
Subject: Re Security issues

I am coming in rather late on this discussion - and I apologise for a rather long post.

Microsoft products use proprietary file formats (.doc, .xls etc), and they 'generally' store 'meta data ' within the file.
This is particularly noticeable with MS Word because it is quite easy to reveal the meta data.
This meta data can contain deleted words / paragraphs etc, essentially stuff that may have been 'removed' if the document was 'sanitised' before publication.
The same also applies to adobe pdf documents (but it is harder to reveal the data).
For article see:  http://addbalance.com/usersguide/metadata.htm
With regard to the article *"Which Top Apps Have the Most Security Holes?"* http://www.itchannelplanet.com/security_news/article.php/3790691Please be aware that the list was compiled by a commercial company
'Bit9' who sell a white listing product, in other words they have some sort of a vested interest.
In fact Bit9 qualify their survey with the following comment "Harry Sverdlove, Bit9's CTO, told /InternetNews.com/ that the real fault generally doesn't lie with the products' vendors themselves, most of whom have fixes available for the security holes.  "The vendors update their patches, but end users often don't install these," Sverdlove said."
Which (probably) means that the patched versions of the listed software are actually OK !

For a realtively unbiased view of software security issues try
http://secunia.com/and if you really want to compare Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3
Internet Explorer 7:   *Unpatched* 27% (9 of 33 Secunia advisories)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/12366/?task=advisories_2009Firefox 3:  *Unpatched* 0% (0 of 8 Secunia advisories)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19089/In other words, Mozilla Firefox 3 has patches available for all the known vunrabilities, whereas Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 has 9 vunrabilitiea still not fixed by Microsoft.
Draw your own conclusions.

Mike Robins

> The top ten apps with vulnerabilities:-
> <http://www.itchannelplanet.com/security_news/article.php/3790691> In this surprising list:-
> 1.  Firefox
> 2.  Adobe Acrobat
> 4.  Sun Java
> 5.  Apple Quicktime
> 6.  Norton