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CA antivirus deletes Windows 2003 file

CA antivirus deletes Windows 2003 fileNot a first for CAOnce I picked up an executable off of a Wireless Driver disc from D-Link as a virus. I never managed to send this off to CA, but they fixed the problem a week later after spending a week with D-Link...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, lsass.exe, Computer Associates International Inc., malware, antivirus, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, CA antiviru, Microsoft Windows 2003

Discussion threads 2006-09-05

What's running on your PC. In English.

In response to my argument about why anti-malware vendors should form a consortium that builds a centralized database of legitimate applications and why the database that Uniblue has come up with as a part of its WinTasksPro product would be a good starting point, not only did Zone Labs...

Tags: database, LSASS, Lsass.exe

Blog posts 2005-05-13

Additional Resources

10 Windows XP services you should never disable

You guys are pitiful. DNS clientOnly deals with cacheing. This below is from XP's description of the DNS client. This is why bloggers suck as journalists. You are a joke and never do your homework. The DNS Client service dnscache caches Domain Name System DNS names and registers the full...

Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Microsoft Windows, DNS, DNS Client, Disabling Services, Windows XP Services, IP, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Diebold ATMs infected with credit card skimming malware

Theory comes into practice. Yesterday, Sophos Principal Virus Research Vanja Svacjer posted an analysis of Troj/Skimer-A, a malware affecting Windows-based Diebold cash machines and capable of intercepting credit card details and their associated PINs. The malware is exclusively coded to target Russian, Ukranian and American currency transactions,...

Tags: Credit Card, Diebold Inc., Malware, ATM, Network Technology, Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Infamous vendor of "AntiVirus XP" badware sued

Infamous vendor of "AntiVirus XP" badware suedcombofix, smitfraudfix, etcI used all the usual tools to remove at least one incarnation of this s__tware, and it still kept coming back! Had to run the "uninstaller," then run smitfraudfix, then manually remove the folders and registry keys!All I can say is...Thank goodness...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, antivirus, Infamous vendor, AntiVirus XP

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Zittrain explains the future of the Internet

Oxford professor and Harvard pioneer Johnathan Zittrain came to the CBS Interactive offices in San Francisco on Tuesday to speak and sign copies of his new book "The Future of the Internet... and How to Stop It". His presentation was called Civic Technologies. ...

Tags: Router, Technology, Zittrain, Internet, Routers & Switches, Networking, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-06

Don't dawdle on Microsoft latest batch of patches

Don't dawdle on Microsoft latest batch of patchesI may have my gripes, but MS does keep up on security patches.I'll give them credit for that.After a recent patch killed the connection between......my PC and my MP3 player, I'll take my time with any "patch" M$ sends...... Including blacklisting any other...

Tags: Patches, SECURITY, Operating systems, patch, patch management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-01-17

Firewall redux: Could a public, open software behavior registry squelch useless dialogs?

In response to yesterday's Tech Shakedown of McAfee's personal firewall product for issuing a useless dialog -- one that asks me to allow or block some behavior but that doesn't give me any idea, clues, or hints as to which of those two options to pick -- one ZDNet reader...

Tags: Web technology, Vista, Technology Shakedown, Software Infrastructure, Security, Personal Technology, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-08-02

Hardware DEP saves day again on VML IE exploit

Hardware DEP saves day again on VML IE exploitA Better Solution?[i]"Reliable software does what it is supposed to do. Secure software does what it is supposed to do... and nothing else."[/i]See [url=http://en.opensuse.org/AppArmor_Detail]AppArmor Details[/url]A better solution?Windows Folks, consider running a VMWare Linux Appliance, e.g., SUSE with AppArmor.The SUSE 10.1 vmx Appliance...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Web browsers, NETWORKING, Microsoft Excel, Linux, VML IE, Hardware DEP, Mozilla Firefox, hardware, VMware Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-20

Hard Drive Crash: Crawl into a bottle? Or a USB enclosure?

Things are not much better with my Stinkpad since yesterday. I call it a Stinkpad because the thing just came back from having it's LCD repaired. Defragging didn't work. I added a partial screen shot to yesterday's blog, but it's repeated again here left for dramatic measure. Trust me,...

Tags: VMware Inc., Knoppix Linux

Blog posts 2006-06-16

Are worms actually good for security?

Are worms actually good for security?Cowpoxwas the "good worm" for smallpox - so its been done before. Actually what you say is not really possible - the self-replicating nature of worms is THE factor that you want to stop. It is this nature that floods networks - which would be...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, worm, security

Discussion threads 2005-08-17

Is Microsoft's Genuine Advantage program good for Linux?

Is Microsoft's Genuine Advantage program good for Linux?CluelessThe article just shows how far out there you guys are. Basic Principle is to make Money. market share is wortheless without revenue that matches it. Who cares how many Linux users there are. Are they paying for it? Vast Majority are not....

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Mac OS/X, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Intuit Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-07-27

The missing glue in the fight against malware

While at Interop in Las Vegas, I was treated to dinner by representatives of Tenebril, developers of the anti-spyware product SpyCatcher. At the table to convince me that the practically unknown security solution provider is a player to be reckoned with in the anti-spyware market were its newly installed...

Tags: Tenebril, Zone Labs Inc.

Blog posts 2005-05-09

Service packs and bug reports

ActiveWin, a Windows resource site, is greeting news that Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has entered its late testing phase by publishing a list of what it claims to be "Bugs Fixed in Windows 2000 SP2." I've been browsing the list, looking at the bugs (in fact not...

Tags: Service Pack 2, Service Pack, Programming, ActiveWin, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Seltzer

News items 2000-12-20

Microsoft Windows 2000 Patch: ADSI Performance Degredation Update (Windows)

This update resolves the "Performance Degradation with ADSI" issue in Windows 2000, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q274172. Download now to ensure that adding a large number of users through the Active Directory Service Interface ADSI will not consume memory resources and decrease performance. Adding a...

Tags: ADSI, Performance, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems

Software downloads 2000-11-10