One of the Google Search features I use fairly often is the Unit Conversion feature. It supports a number of different conversions including temperature, distance, weight, and many others. For most simple conversions, it saves you the trouble of searching for a tool on another website.

Generally, I've always opened Google in a browser, typed in my units to convert, and hit the Search button. Recently, I started typing units to convert in my Google Toolbar, which I usually only use for searches and I was pleasantly suprised to find that the toolbar actually did the conversion without me having to hit the Search button.

Doesn't get much easier than that...try it for yourself.

A 0-day exploit within a component of Microsoft DirectShow is being exploited in the wild through thousands of newly compromised web sites according to SANS.

The exploit takes advantage of the ActiveX control and can give the intruder the same user rights as the local user. The exploit affects users running Internet Explorer with this control installed.

Temporary fixes are currently available but we recommend that you contact Anteris for further assistance. For machines vulnerable to this exploit and currently subscribing to our Anteris Manage service, we have already applied the workarounds to your systems pending a security hotfix release by Microsoft.

Users running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 are currently not affected.