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Microsoft shuts off Messenger in US-embargoed countries

Tom Warren — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:28:47 +0000

Microsoft has switched off access to Windows Live Messenger in Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea. The software giant announced the policy change in a blog post spotted by our friends at LiveSide. If... Read more...

3D Realms shuts down

Kevin Weiner — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:18:51 +0000

Just when we thought that long delayed Duke Nukem forever has made some progress, bad news arises. According to Shack News, Duke Nukem's developer, 3D Realms has shut down due to funding issues. However, Apogee... Read more...

Google shuts off anti-phishing feature in Firefox 2.0

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:34:25 +0000

Mozilla had announced earlier that it is not planning to do any further security & stability updates for Firefox 2 and the phishing protection service will no longer be available for Firefox 2 users from... Read more...

Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows Live Help Community too

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:03:12 +0000

Microsoft has silently removed the Windows Live Help Community service and the link now redirects to Windows Live Help. This is one of the many Windows Live services being dropped in recent times. And... Read more...

China Shuts Down Pornographic Web Sites

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:57:42 +0000

China shut down 44,000 Web sites and arrested 868 people for Internet pornography last year, state media said Wednesday. China's Public Security Ministry launched a crackdown on Internet pornography last year, saying it had "perverted... Read more...

Russia shuts down Allofmp3.com

Tom Warren — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:51:02 +0000

The music download website whose activities threatened to scupper Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been shut down. The site, Allofmp3.com, was quietly closed as the Kremlin sought to end criticism from... Read more...

Apple Shuts Down IPv6 Security Hole

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:56:30 +0000

Apple has slammed the door shut on denial-of-service attacks and a security bypass that Type 0 routing headers in IPv6 let in. The company on June 20 put out an update, Mac OS X 10.4.10,... Read more...

Windows XP Exploit Shuts Off Windows Firewall

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:56:54 +0000

Detailed exploit code for a Windows XP security vulnerability has been published on the Internet, offering a roadmap for hackers to disable the firewall embedded in the operating system. Microsoft on Oct. 31 confirmed it... Read more...

Microsoft shuts down Windows 98

Steven Parker — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:37:22 +0000

From 11 July, Microsoft will no longer help users over the phone with any problems they have with the ageing operating system. The firm will also stop providing security updates for Windows 98 from the... Read more...

Yahoo Shuts Chat Rooms Amid Child sex Concerns

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:52:42 +0000

Yahoo Inc., the most-used Internet site, has shut down all its user-created Internet chat rooms amid concerns that adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors. The giant Internet media company... Read more...

FTC Shuts Down Fraudulent Antispyware Company

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:37:26 +0000

Chalk one up for the good guys. The FTC today announced that it's filed a restraining order against a company that allegedly offered Internet users a spyware scanner program that falsely reported that computers were... Read more...

Apple shuts down iPodDownload

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:41:13 +0000

IPOD MAKER Apple has come down hard on a man who made an add-in that allowed file-sharing on iPods. iPodDownload's creator has stopped distributing the iPodDownload software after a visit from Apple lawyers who applied... Read more...

OpenSSL shuts attack holes

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:17:37 +0000

Two patches have been released for flaws in the open-source security program that permit denial-of-service attacks that could cripple the Internet. The group behind OpenSSL, a widely used open-source Web security program, released two patches... Read more...

Digitalo Shuts Down

Marcel Klum — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:28:38 +0000

Digitalo, the Florida based developer of this year's Unreal engine based FPS Devastation has officially shut their doors as of last Monday, Nov. 3. According to what an official source at Digitalo told HomeLAN today,... Read more...

VeriSign shuts down Web site finder

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 04 Oct 2003 05:43:26 +0000

Web address provider VeriSign Inc. said on Friday it would suspend a controversial new service that steers mistaken Web searches to its own page after the organization that oversees Internet policies demanded it do so.... Read more...

New Macromedia site shuts out Apple

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:54:46 +0000

A redesign of Macromedia's main Web site is attracting criticism from customers because it doesn't work with some browsers, including Apple Computer's much-hyped Safari. Macromedia launched a beta, or test version, of... Read more...

MGM Shuts Down Stargate Fan Project

Michael Stanclift — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:08:44 +0000

Development on a freeware Stargate: SG1 game has been ceased as MGM Studios issued a cease and desist order. The team of gamers that has been working on the game for three years using the... Read more...

Court shuts down '.usa' internet address scam

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:19:12 +0000

A US court shut down a Web site that capitalized on post-September 11 patriotic fervor to sell fake Internet domain names with suffixes such as ".usa" and ".brit," the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.... Read more...

Excite UK shuts down.

Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:50:23 +0000

Web portal Excite UK is shutting down its operation and shedding its remaining 48 jobs after a last-ditch funding effort fell short, the company said on Monday. The portal had been looking... Read more...

China Shuts Down Net Cafe, Again

Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:03:57 +0000

So what happen to the shop that were shut down? Do they get any money from the government or anything? I doubt it. Any way, thanks The Register for this. Here it goes.. ... Read more...

MSN.com shuts out non-Microsoft browsers

Fri, 26 Oct 2001 07:55:14 +0000

Some people trying to access Microsoft's MSN.com with a non-Microsoft browser are finding themselves locked out. Although the software leviathan's Internet Explorer easily reaches MSN, other browsers--such as Opera, Mozilla and some... Read more...