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...biggest bug in the blue-pill program is its effect on the old ticker. Viagra was already known to clash badly with heart disease drugs such as nitroglycerin; now the researchers have anecdotal evidence to suggest that any cardiovascular complaint might put you in the danger zone. Pfizer's response? You're 2.5 times more likely to have heart trouble in the hours after sex anyway -- with or without the little blue pill. And since that hasn't stopped men so far, these latest warnings are hardly likely to deflate Viagra's sales figures: 3.6 million and rising...
...make navigation simpler, content deeper and download time faster. We also tried to integrate the best of the magazine's weekly content with online-only features and TIME Daily's hugely popular "what it means now" approach to breaking news. As usual, we're open to suggestions and bug reports. How are we doing? Let us know at daily@pathfinder.com...
Remember last week, when word broke that versions of Microsoft's and Netscape's e-mail programs were afflicted with a nasty glitch, and we advised you to buy a "bug-free" copy of Qualcomm's Eudora? Umm, never mind! It turns out that the latest iterations of the popular Eudora Pro (4.0 and above) have an equally gaping security hole that could let bad guys get into your PC. If you use it, be sure to get the patch at eudora.com...
...Bill Cheswick, a security expert at Bell Labs, argues that simple carelessness caused the glitch: "It's an old rookie mistake--something you get in freshman programming." The bug enables an evil-minded e-mailer to send an attachment whose file name can be an executable program thousands of lines long. Apparently, someone forgot to set a size limit on file names for attachments. Oops. While Microsoft and Netscape say they've yet to hear of any hackers exploiting the bug, "I would be surprised if there weren't some bad guys out there who already had this in their...
...hard drive. Get the patches now. (And if you keep the original programs on disks, label them so you'll remember the patch if you ever reinstall.) Better yet, do what I do: buy a better e-mail program. I've always used Qualcomm's Eudora, which is killer-bug free...