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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Happy Holidays


Christmas is approaching and 2007 is about to draw to a close, we at SL-Scotland would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to all our Scottish R Us members for a wonderful 2007. We hope you have a smashing Christmas and a happy new year ahead!

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Winners Of Christmas Treasure Hunt Extravaganza

The list of winners is out now! Congratulation to the winners and thanks to everyone that had participated or had assisted in making the event a success.

1st - L$10,000 goes to mirre catteneo
2nd - L$4,000 goes to hamish cale
3rd - L$2,000 goes to jannah kohnke

Sadly we have to disqualify 5 residents for starting early (3) and for using scanners (2).

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Updates On Christmas Treasure Hunt Extravaganza


Christmas Treasure Hunt Extravaganza will start on Sunday December 16th 12:01 AM SLT and the event will run for 24 hours. A total of 13 sims will be involved!

Prizes:
1st - L$10,000
2nd - L$4,000
3rd - L$2,000

The above top 3 prizes will be determined by the number of red coins you collected. Whenever you find one, just buy it for L$0 and it will go into your inventory.

There are also hundreds of green coins around which have prizes that you may keep.

Get your notecard with landmarks at Scotland now!

Friday, December 14, 2007

QuickTime 7.3.1 Update Available Now

QuickTime 7.3.1 Update is available now. This release is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users to addresses security issues.

Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2

Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted RTSP movie may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A buffer overflow exists in QuickTime's handling of Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) headers. By enticing a user to view a maliciously crafted RTSP movie, an attacker may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue by ensuring that the destination buffer is sized to contain the data.

Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted QTL file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution
Description: A heap buffer overflow exists in QuickTime's handling of QTL files. By enticing a user to view a maliciously crafted QTL file, an attacker may cause an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved bounds checking.

Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in QuickTime's Flash media handler
Description: Multiple vulnerabilities exist in QuickTime's Flash media handler, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code execution. With this update, the Flash media handler in QuickTime is disabled except for a limited number of existing QuickTime movies that are known to be safe. Credit to Tom Ferris of Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET), Mike Price of McAfee Avert Labs, and security researchers Lionel d'Hauenens & Brian Mariani of Syseclabs for reporting this issue.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Christmas Treasure Hunt


Greetings.

There will be a 24-Hours Christmas Treasure Hunt on Sunday 16th December 2007. A total of 11 sims will be participating in this hunt.

More information as well as landmarks will be given out on 15th December. So keep a lookout for this event!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

[Update] Store For Rent

Store has been taken.

We have one store available for rent. Weekly rental is 500L for this store that comes with a prim limit of 25.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Second Life On Eee PC


Anyone interested in getting Second Life to run on the Eee PC can click on this link and find out for yourself how it can be done.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

[Update] Technical Problem With Some Games At Snow Mountain

The problem has been fixed. All games playable now!

There is a technical problem with the games at the mountain of Eilean Donan, you might want to wait till Trippi fixes the glitch.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Dangerous QuickTime Security Flaw

Linden Lab has sent a warning about a dangerous exploit in QuickTime which may allow an attacker to crash or exploit the viewer. This exploit affects QuickTime usage on every platform.

It is believed that the exploit works when someone comes nearby and is within view of a bugged object, the viewer activates QuickTime so it can play the stream. In doing so, QuickTime directs the viewer to a web site. By exploiting the flaw in QuickTime, hackers can direct the viewer to a malicious web site that then allows them to take over the avatar or they could create a program embedded in an avatar's and have it activated in a way that a passing avatar would have no clue whatsoever that it had just been pickpocketed.

Linden Lab's advice is that you disable streaming video playback in the viewer except when you are attending a known and trusted venue.
- Open your Preferences dialog
- Uncheck "Play Streaming Video When Available" checkbox on the "Audio & Video" tab

Rental News

We have 1 small cottage in Dornie available for rent at 300L/per week with a prims limit of 100.

There are about 5 advertising boards still available in Scotland at 100L/per week.

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