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Healthcare.gov homepage ranks 4th in a performance test, but that s just for the homepage U.S. officials say the Healthcare.gov website is improving for its users, and response times are now less than a second. But the only way to know for sure is to put their claims to an independent test, and thatrsquo exactly what was done. SmartBear, which makes site performance and testing tools including its AlertSite monitoring product, tested Healthcare.gov at the request of Computerworld. Healthcare.gov has faced availab stanley cup ility and performance problems since its launch, and Monday was no different. There was a partial outage to a k stanley spain ey site feature, the enrollment process during the test, but the site is also showing some strengths. Government officials say they are repairing these problems and are providing day-by-day updates to underscore the urgency of their mission. In a press briefing Friday, Jeffrey Zients, the White House official in charge of ensuring the site gets fixed, touted the improvements so far: The current page response times are now less than one second mdash; or 1,000 milliseconds. The Healthcare.gov homepage, which doesnrsquo;t have a lot of content, is loading quickly, ranging from 1.5 seconds to 4 seconds, according to SmartBearrsquo testing. It was loading at an average of 3.04 seconds in this test, which was conducted during the workday on Monday. Healthcare.gov was compared to a dozen other healthcare-related sites, w owala water bottle hich w Mdqy Two charged with hacking computers to generate bitcoins

It could lead to hijacked instant messaging accounts MS03-032, on Aug. 20 that was supposed to fix the problem. However, that patch failed to close the hole on Windows machines running Internet Explorer Versions 5.01, 5.5 or 6.0.On Sept. 8, Microsoft acknowledged problems with the MS03-032 patch and promised to issue a fix as soon as possible. Since that time, no changes have been made to the MS03-032 patch. In the succeeding weeks, hackers moved quickly to take advantage of the companyrsquo slow response.Recent exploits of the Object Data vulnerability i stanley uk nclude a virus that spreads over the AIM network, stealing usersrsquo; account names and passwords, then mailing links to a malicious hacker Web site to the victimrsquo AIM correspondents or buddy list , Smit owala wasserflasche h said. Although the Web site associated with that threat has been removed, users who received and clicked on an infected instant message could have had their AIM accounts hijacked, Smith said.The vulnerability also cropped up in an e-mail message containing HTML code that exploits the vulnerability. When opened, th polene france e message installs a file called ldquo urferbar.dll onto the victimrsquo computer with links to pornographic Web sites, according to Secunia Ltd., a security company in Copenhagen see story .Although some of the new attacks are targeting holes in the MS3-032 patch, others may just be targeting users who havenrsquo;t applied the patch at all, Smith said. Short of issuing an