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Malware author greets Microsoft's Windows Defender team

Malware author greets Microsoft's Windows Defender teamMalware not an option its a FEATURE with Windows!Welcome to Windows, my kingdom for viruses/malware/spyware/trojans a daily life in hum drum Windows land.Punk'd in RussiaThey got them too.I'll stick with MintLinuxI left Windows b/c of random problems like these 6 years ago. Won't go...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Operating systems, SECURITY, malware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Defender team, Malware author, Microsoft Windows Defender, Linux, Microsoft Corp., team

Discussion threads 2009-01-14

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Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints; no Start customizations and stylus still required

Apple is safe.Point release or not, Microsoft is under the gun to come up with something better than this retread if they want to stay in the mobile device business. Make no mistake, the handset makers are not just disappointed, they are steaming about Microsoft's inability to keep up, because...

Tags: Keyboards, Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless and Mobility, phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, touch screen, Windows Mobile 6.5, ringer, mobile, Finger-friendly, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Apple drops (another) Mac OS X security patch

The patch to fix the patch that fixed the patch that Jack builtI laugh and I laugh and I laugh at those who suggest that people have to patch Windows more frequently than OS X. Those same people will then turn around and cheer Apple for releasing patches "as soon...

Tags: Patches, Emperor, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., vulnerability, patch, OSX, security

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

"Morro" in the cloud: a retraction and apology

Earlier this week I wrote a post defining "Morro", what it is, what it does and separating fact from fiction. I'll get the harsh truth out first: I was wrong, quite a bit wrong, and it's not easy to admit to it but it needs to be said. I decided this...

Tags: Blog, Post, Morro, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Morro FUD ...

Morro FUD ...You should've checked your emailPeople with subscriptions that were expiring in the last couple months were getting a free 6 month extension to OneCare.Norton AV 2009 isn't bad though. It's much faster than previous versions, but the Norton toolbar that it installs is garbage. I wouldn't...

Tags: Norton 360, Morro FUD, Norton Co., OneCare, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Microsoft ready to launch beta of its free Morro antivirus offering

Microsoft ready to launch beta of its free Morro antivirus offeringSimplicityNifty! (Weird how this had cross my mind this morning after we finished our migration to SBS 2008 and suddenly there's a Reuters article today.)Really, all I would like to see is something like how Windows Defender is today--remarkably silent,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Morro antiviru, Microsoft Ready, Google Inc., Morro, beta, Symantec Corp., antivirus

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Windows 7 build 7057 - Performance that blasts past XP, Vista and previous builds

Windows 7 build 7057 - Performance that blasts past XP, Vista and previous buildsWill you be able to post the actual times?Just wondering.a lot of work, but...where's the beef.Many people don't care about windoze anymore.The real test can be only against Linux and OSX.You must care linux geekAs your here...

Tags: Performance management, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Build 7057, Windows 7 Build, XP Vista, Microsoft Windows, performance, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-03-16

News to know: Jobs' medical leave; Windows 7; BlackBerry PDF vulnerabilities; Tech economy

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Jobs to take medical leave; Back in summer at WWDC? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:  Steve Jobs takes "medical...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Larry Dignan, Patent, Microsoft Windows 7, Adobe PDF, Leave, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Malware author greets Microsoft's Windows Defender team

A Russian malware author with involvement in the Zlob malware family, one of the most prolific malware families in 2008 thanks to its successful mimicking of video codecs, has left a message for the Windows Defender team inside a sample analyzed by French researchers. The message is a follow-up to...

Tags: Team, Malware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Malware Author, Malware Family, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Still more questions than answers about Microsoft Morro

Still more questions than answers about Microsoft MorroWindows Home ServerHopefully we will finally see support in Morro for Windows Home Server which I know people have been asking the OneCare Team to support for the last year.Backup?One of the prime reasons I use OneCare is to back up all my...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Morro, Defender, OneCare, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-11-21

Friday Rant - Why is most security software rubbish?

Friday Rant - Why is most security software rubbish?Don't use a suiteall you need is AV and anti-spywareAVG is freeSpyBot or Windows Defender are freeAVG and SpyBot can be set to run automaticallyDefender runs automaticallywhy make a big deal out of itAAgreedIn the past I have used Norton System Security...

Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, security, security software, Friday Rant, AVG, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-10-26

Still no word on cause of WGA outage or Microsoft's future prevention plans

On August 27, Microsoft shared a bit more information on the worldwide outage that affected Windows XP and Vista users attempting to prove they were running non-pirated versions of Windows using Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage WGA system.According to the latest blog post by Senior Product Manager Alex Kochis on the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-28

Is the era of Microsoft ending?

Is the era of Microsoft ending?open sourceopen source doesn't mean free. Systems people need to eat and most of them are paid by some one. A lot of companies support Linux as way of balancing off Microsoft's need to own the world. In my unhumble opinion the os out...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, open-source idea, Dana, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2007-08-10

Vista kernel tampering tool released, then mysteriously disappears

The race to defeat a key anti-rootkit/anti-DRM mechanism in Windows Vista has heated up again with the release of a tool that loads unsigned drivers into 64-bit Windows kernel and a swift decision by Microsoft to treat the utility as malicious spyware.But a third developer has joined the fray with...

Tags: Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Tool, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Is Microsoft rushing Vista SP1 to boost adoption?

Is Microsoft rushing Vista SP1 to boost adoption?What's the issue?MS has said for months, well before Vista release, that there would be SP1 release at same time as Longhorn server (now Windows Server 2008) release, to complete the Vista OS tie-in to the server and security platform. Nothing about...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1

Discussion threads 2007-07-09

Killing the crapware problem on PCs

Killing the crapware problem on PCsGroove could be dangerousGeorge says: "Groove is something that comes with Office 2007 and I haven't figured out how to disable that yet without having it automatically come back though it doesn't seem to be causing any problems."From my understanding Groove is for peer to...

Tags: Corporate communications, Desktops, Groupware, Microsoft Windows 98, PC, video, crapware problem, Groove Networks Inc., advertisement, PC industry

Discussion threads 2007-04-20

Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot?

Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot?A new PC is a super computer. So I don'tthink it is hardware.It's the HardWareI think it's Primarily the hardware. I have a dual-boot set-up on a new bugdet PC and Vista is at least 20% faster.Is the hardware, look no more!I agreed...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), StartUp, new-PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, hardware

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

No Vista fixes in Microsoft's dirty dozen

No Vista fixes in Microsoft's dirty dozenNo Vista fixes in Microsoft's dirty dozenLooks like Vista is living up to all the hype and more! And all the bashers said it wasn't worth it. This article clearly proved them wrong. All the enhancements in Vista are making it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Looks like Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Vista-fix

Discussion threads 2007-02-13

Symantec: Sour Microsoft grapes or a real beef?

Symantec: Sour Microsoft grapes or a real beef?Pre-judgingJust as there were those who saw Microsoft's inability to provide acceptable documentation of protocols as evidence that the company was hiding something, so there are people who believe that Microsoft's delay in providing information about Vista as evidence that the company is...

Tags: SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Symantec Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-28

Another WGA failure

[Update 10-August: It took a few days, but I'm now officially a pirate. Don't miss the follow-up post here along with the accompanying image gallery that shows the WGA process in action.]I just experienced a Windows Genuine Advantage failure. Only it’s not a false positive, like the horror stories I’ve...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., WGA, Microsoft Windows, product key

Blog posts 2006-08-08