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- 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
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- 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
- McAfee Avert Stinger 10.0.1.624 (Windows)
- Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system. Stinger utilizes next generation scan engine technology, including process scanning, digitally signed DAT files,...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Microsoft Windows, Stinger
- Software downloads 2009-07-06
- 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
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...
- Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Microsoft's free enterprise search is a must try
- Microsoft's free enterprise search is a must trySearch has one benefitmainly for someone new to the set up but i do agree with you.Try it before you knock itYou still need to organize your data and manage the security. Search just makes your documents usable by being searchable. ...
- Tags: SEARCH, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Just like Vista, Search Server Express, credence, enterprise search, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., SBS 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- 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
- Microsoft delivers two patches for three vulnerabilities; Plugs Vista hole
- Microsoft on Tuesday delivered one "critical" addressing two vulnerabilities in XP and Vista and one "important" vulnerability in Windows 2000, XP and Windows Server 2003. The critical patch resolves two vulnerabilities (CVE-2007-0069 and CVE-2007-0066) reported by IBM ISS X-Force. The vulnerability, which involved TCP/IP processing, was critical...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Hacking Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
- Learn how to recognize and fight common Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 hacking techniques. This sample chapter, taken from McGraw-Hill's Hacking Exposed, Fifth Edition, provides detailed insight on how to fight common Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 hacking methods such as the following:Password guessingEavesdropping on...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows XP, McGraw-Hill Companies, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Hacking, Operating Systems, Security, Servers, Software, Hardware
- Book chapters 2006-01-11
- 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
- Worm spells double trouble for PCs
- Worm spells double trouble for PCsWould this affect my new iMac?see subjectShould the head line read...Worm spells double trouble for idiots or companies who rely on moronic admins who don't know how to properly configure a firewall and still haven't patched workstations despite the fact that the patch has been...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Linux, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, corporate network, worm, Microsoft Windows, PC
- Discussion threads 2005-07-15
- 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
- Mytob e-mail worm proliferating quickly
- Mytob e-mail worm proliferating quicklyLet me see if I have this straight1. There is 1 worm with 12 variations. I wonder how many of the millions of trojans/worms/viruses that ABMers love bringing up are exactly the same thing with a slightly different subject/payload?2. A user has to open the mail,...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, worm, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Linux, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-03-29
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