Revision Note: V1.0 (July 10, 2012): Advisory published.
Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of an automated Microsoft Fix it solution that disables the Windows Sidebar and Gadgets on supported editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Disabling the Windows Sidebar and...
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One year ago this week we challenged the security community to take an unconventional focus on defensive innovation. We called that challenge the Link Removed due to 404 Error, and tomorrow night, we will award the grand prize of $200,000 to one of the finalists - Jared DeMott, Ivan Fratric, or...
Revision Note: V1.0 (July 10, 2012): Advisory published.
Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of an automated Microsoft Fix it solution that disables the Windows Sidebar and Gadgets on supported editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Disabling the Windows Sidebar and...
Patch Tuesday Reminder:
Today is Patch Tuesday. Please, keep your machines properly protected & make sure the Updates get put in or have been put in for July.
Regards,
Drew
Today, as a part of our continuing phased mitigation strategy recently discussed, we have initiated the additional hardening of Windows Update. We’ve also provided more information about the MD5 hash-collision attacks used by the Flame malware in the SRD blog. This information should help...
Hello,
At Microsoft, our commitment is to help ensure customer trust in their computing experience. That was the impetus for Trustworthy Computing, and central to that is the priority we place on taking the necessary actions to help protect our customers.
Yesterday, we issued Security Advisory...
Ive heard windows defender in vista & 7 is fairly spectacular, so i was wondering if it will protect ie9 against browser hijackers by itself?
Right now im running a 7 64 under SUA, UAC is on max, 7 firewall, DEP for all, and Defender is my only active protection......its allmost like...
I got a message from windowscontrolscanning.in that I have all these sercurity risks and for me to download their zip file. I put windowscontrolscanning.in in the address bar and nothing came up. I downloaded Malwarebytes free trial and got rid of 8 files. So I ordered the full version of...
yo i am raj ,going to tell about best anti-virus ,good for every pc
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2.Guardian
3.Bit defender
4.Net protector
5.Kaspersky
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During our investigation into the disclosure of confidential data shared with our Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) partners, we determined that a member of the MAPP program, Hangzhou DPTech Technologies Co., Ltd., had breached our non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Microsoft takes...
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Occassionally getting the above error to sites like Yahoo
Mail, Trendsource.com, a few other sites. Seems to be an intermittent problem.
Occurred shortly after downloaded some programs from cnet.com/download.com which
I later...
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* I'm using adsl2+ directly connected to the laptop or pc by ethernet cable. i don't plan on using wi-fi
1. Out of those, which is best suited for online banking? Basically which had the least and which will provide more protection for banking online?
2. If i buy an laptop or pc from the...
It took Redmond 1 day to kill a threat that allowed users with a Firefox add-on (Tamper Data) to remotely reset the password of a Hotmail account and allowing them to access the outgoing HTTP request, then modify the data.
Microsoft was notified April 20, 2012, applied the fix April 21...
Hi all, I a while back I tried to install windows 7 SP1 but it failed, I tried it a few more times and then just hid the update. More recently I attempted to install the update again and received the error 8007002. So I tried to fix it using the recommended windows fix of deleting files in the...
Describes and provides links to several Microsoft security resource centers and tools that can help you protect your system from malware and from viruses.
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Windows 8 CP has a free AV/Spyware solution in Windows Defender (re-branded MSE). This may be well for some users, as it auto updates & scans the system for you. Just a few settings to make, notably the time of scan & a few other options.
However, if you're considering this as your permanent...
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it is purported that creating a separate admin account then setting your admin acct to a std user helps with warding of malware. In order to do any admin tasks u must enter a PW.
The purpose of UAC is to help ward off malware. If set at default, in order to perform admin functions u must...
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