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Actress and business exec Jodie Fisher ID d as person behind complaint against former CEO Former HP CEO Mark Hurd. The woman who had a close personal relationship with former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd is a business executive and sometimes actress who appeared most recently in NBCrsquo short-lived reality TV show Age of Love.Her name is Jodie Fisher. A single mom, she was identified Sunday night by her attorney, Gloria Allred , a high-profile Los Angeles litigator.I was surprised and saddened that Mark Hurd lost his job over this, Fisher said in a statement released by Allred. That was never my intention. Hurdrsquo resignation from the top jobs at HP was announced suddenly l
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hydrojug tumbler dquo;with Mark privately, without litigation.Mark and I never had an affair or intimate sexual relationship, said Fisher, who noted that she met Hurd in 2007 when interviewing for a job at HP. She got the job. I was under contract to work at high-level customer and executive summit events held around the country and abroad, she said. I prepared for those events, worked very hard and enjoyed working for HP. Exactly what happened on the job has not been explaine
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stanley cup software update to some Windows users that fixes a bug in the Windows AutoRun software, used to automatically launch programs when DVDs or USB devices are introduced to the PC.The bug fix, delivered through Microsoftrsquo standard automatic update systems, comes one month after the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team US-CERT issued a security alert warning that Windows did not properly disable AutoRun on Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003.Disabling AutoRun on Microsoft Windows systems can help prevent the spread of malicious code, CERT said in its advisor
owala flasche y. However, Microsoftrsquo guidelines for disabling AutoRun are not fully effective, which could be considered a vulnerability. Microsoft had said that technical users could disable AutoRun by setting a Windows Registry value called NoDriveTypeAutoRun to 0xFF. The problem was that, even with this value set, some versions of Window
polene bag s would launch AutoRun programs whenever the user clicked on a devicersquo icon using Windows Explorer.That could mean big trouble for some users, as the widespread Conficker worm uses AutoRun to spread from USB devices to PCs. There has been some internal debate within Microsoft as to whether Windows should enable AutoRun by default, since the software can be misused. AutoRun helped install the notorious Sony rootkit copy-protection software on usersrsquo; PCs four years ago. Although Microsoft describes its fix as a nonsecurity upd
