CRN (among others) have posted word about an exploit in Windows -- including Vista! -- that uses the Windows Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) function. This is one of those features that most people never use anyway and which should be disabled by default, so you're probably better off turning it off completely as a pre-emptive measure. See the 2nd link for instructions on how to do this; the whole thing takes maybe 30 seconds.
November 2007 Archives
I ran into a problem with a solution this weekend while preparing to burn a DVD to bring to my parents over the Thanksgiving weekend: Seems that CD/DVD burners attached to a Silicon Image SATA interface aren't recognized as burners in Windows Vista.
The good news: Microsoft knows it's a problem and has a hotfix available for it immediately. (They've had this hotfix out for some time, as a matter of fact.) Said hotfix will also appear in Vista SP1, but you can grab it now from the download link listed here.
