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Microsoft Secure Content Downloader July 2007 Community Technology Preview 1 (Windows)

The Microsoft Secure Content Downloader MSCD is a peer-assisted download manager capable of securely downloading specific files. MSCD is intended for consumers who are downloading from a home PC, or business users whose computers are not behind a corporate firewall. If you use MSCD from behind a corporate firewall, you...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Community Technology Preview, Microsoft Secure Content Downloader, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

Software downloads 2007-08-25

A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Avalanche

I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...

Tags: Codename, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-10

Additional Resources

55,000 Web sites hacked to serve up malware cocktail

The key words..."PC users"Another WIndows exploit?How can this possibly be happening. According to most of the Windows fan boys on ZDnet, it isn't even necessary to run antivirus with super-secure WIndows. Ahh, silly me, I forgot - these 'power users' represent about 0.0000001% of the real world's Windows user base....

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Web site development, SECURITY, Spyware, malware, Microsoft Windows, malware cocktail, trojan horse, Apple Safari, Web site, Web

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...

Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-05