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Stuart J. Johnson

More Vendors Recall Laptop Batteries

Toshiba, Lenovo, and Fujitsu have hopped on the recall bandwagon for hundreds of thousands of laptop batteries that use defective Sony-made battery cells. Some of the defective batteries pose a fire hazard; others just stop working. To see whether your laptop is affected, check the appropriate link, by the cutoff date of December 31:

And be ready for more: Sony says it will announce additional recalls for other laptop batteries that use the defective cells.

In Brief
Segways Stumble

Watch out for Segways: The company is recalling all 23,500 of the vehicles for suddenly careening over forward when their wheels reverse direction, with no warning, because of a software bug. Get more details here.

Mozilla Fixes

Mozilla patched four critical flaws in the Firefox browser; two also affect the Thunderbird e-mail program. At press time, there were no reports of attacks exploiting these holes. Get the fix by updating both apps to version 1.5.0.7 via their update feature, or at www.mozilla.org/products. For more information, go here.

PowerPoint Pain

Another zero-day security hole hit PowerPoint 2000, 2002, and 2003. Click here for a patch, and, as always, exercise caution with unexpected e-mail attachments.

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Stuart J. Johnston is a contributing editor for PC World.

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