Sony Corp on Friday launched new versions of its Vaios personal computers for the Japan market and said it was sticking to this year's PC shipment targets, which were set in April, despite recent profit warnings.

Keiji Kimura, president of Sony's mobile network company, said the company aimed to ship 3.9 million PCs worldwide in the current business year to next March, including 2.1 million overseas, compared with global shipments of 2.5 million last year.
He added that the downturn in the PC market, with Japanese market data in recent weeks showing even once-hot retail sales of notebook PCs edging below year-ago levels, was likely to be a temporary phenomenon.
"The demand is definitely out there,'' he said. "We're looking for it to come back to life.''
Such optimism contrasted with a profit warning by the company late last month, when it cut its consolidated operating profit forecast for 2001/02 by more than half to 120 billion yen ($988 million). That followed an earlier revision in July.

Sony, the top-selling notebook PC maker in Japan according to retail sales data from Nikkei Market Access, also unveiled its latest Vaios for Japan, which include added wireless data features and Microsoft Corp's new Windows XP operating system.

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This patch eliminates three vulnerabilities affecting Internet
Explorer. The first involves how IE handles URLs that include dotless
IP addresses. If a web site were specified using a dotless IP format
(e.g., http://031713501415 rather than http://207.46.131.13), and the
request were malformed in a particular way, IE would not recognize
that the site was an Internet site. Instead, it would treat the site
as an intranet site, and open pages on the site in the Intranet Zone
rather than the correct zone. This would allow the site to run with
fewer security restrictions than appropriate. This vulnerability does
not affect IE 6.

The second involves how IE handles URLs that specify third-party
sites. By encoding an URL in a particular way, it would be possible
for an attacker to include HTTP requests that would be sent to the
site as soon as a connection had been established. These requests
would appear to have originated from the user. In most cases, this
would only allow the attacker to send the user to a site and request
a page on it. However, if exploited against a web-based service
(e.g., a web-based mail service), it could be possible for the
attacker to take action on the user's behalf, including sending a
request to delete data.

The third is a new variant of a vulnerability discussed in Microsoft
Security Bulletin MS01-015, affecting how Telnet sessions are invoked
via IE. By design, telnet sessions can be launched via IE. However, a
vulnerability exists because when doing so, IE will start Telnet
using any command-line options the web site specifies. This only
becomes a concern when using the version of the Telnet client that
installs as part of Services for Unix (SFU) 2.0 on Windows NT(r) 4.0
or Windows(r) 2000 machines. The version of the Telnet client in SFU
2.0 provides an option for creating a verbatim transcript of a Telnet
session. An attacker could start a session using the logging option,
then stream an executable file onto the user's system in a location
that would cause it to be executed automatically the next time the
user booted the machine. The flaw does not lie in the Telnet client,
but in IE, which should not allow Telnet to be started remotely with
command-line arguments.



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