system protection

  1. CVE-2024-38027: Critical Denial of Service Vulnerability in Windows LPD Service

    --- # CVE-2024-38027: Windows Line Printer Daemon Service Denial of Service Vulnerability In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, vulnerabilities pose significant risks to users and organizations alike. One such vulnerability that has recently come to light is CVE-2024-38027...
  2. Critical Cybersecurity Alert: Windows 10 and 11 Vulnerabilities Exposed

    In a significant advisory for Windows users, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the national cybersecurity agency, has issued a warning regarding multiple vulnerabilities affecting various versions of Microsoft Windows, particularly Windows 10 and Windows 11. These...
  3. Windows 10 Turn on anti-ransomware features in (Build 1709) Fall Creators Update

    A new setting which stops ransomware from taking control of your folders has been added to the Fall Creator update. This is accessed using Windows Defender and won't work with third party security applications. To turn it on follow my screenshots below: Click the arrowed setting: Simply...
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    Windows 7 Deleting Windows Restore Points, then wiping the free space

    Hello: I am trying to sell a computer to someone else, and want to more or less sanitize my personal info from the computer. I secure-deleted the files with sensitive info, uninstalled my financial software, and then ran a program like Eraser that claimed to effectively wipe all free space. I...
  5. Windows 8 Windows Defender Remove something On Every Startup

    Hi im using windows 8.1 Pro With media center i dont know what is it but every time i boot up the windows i see a notification right up the screen that say : Windows Defender Removing Malware i checked the quarantined item but its empty and in all detected items i see this : { Category: Tool...
  6. Customer Guidance for WannaCrypt attacks

    Microsoft solution available to protect additional products Today many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend on were victims of malicious “WannaCrypt” software. Seeing businesses and individuals affected by cyberattacks, such as the ones reported today, was...
  7. Windows 10 Microsoft delays Patch Tuesday updates due to "a last minute issue"

    February 2017 security update release Our top priority is to provide the best possible experience for customers in maintaining and protecting their systems. This month, we discovered a last minute issue that could impact some customers and was not resolved in time for our planned updates...
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    Asus Anti Surge

    Hi fast question. My mobo Asus Z170-P and psu Corsair 750RM. 3 months ago there was power outage ( for short time ) in my house,and my pc restart with message: "“Power supply surges detected during the previous power on ASUS anti-surge was triggered to protect system from unstable supply unit.”...
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    Windows 10 How to make SD card act like perm hard disk in Win 10 Pro?

    I'm setting up a Toshiba Encore 2 Tablet for a family member. I've already updated it to run 32-bit Windows 10 Pro 1607. It came with a very small amount of internal EMCC storage (24 GB available, NTFS formatted), but fortunately it also includes a MicroSD slot, which I've populated as a 128 GB...
  10. MS16-116 - Critical: Security Update in OLE Automation for VBScript Scripting Engine...

    Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (September 13, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker successfully convinces a user of an affected system to visit a...
  11. Ransomware

    Police in The Netherlands in cooperation with Europol, Kaspersky and Intel Security, announced a new website with offers help to victims of ransomware and with advice to protect your system against it. Here it is: The No More Ransom Project I hope it helps Henk
  12. Windows 7 Internet getting dangerous.

    There was once a time when you might only expect to pick up some malicious software on certain types of websites. It seems now, almost anywhere might expose you to such things. I was doing something as innocent as looking for the radio frequencies used in Microwave ovens and ended up getting...
  13. MS15-069 - Important: Vulnerabilities in Windows Could Allow Remote Code Execution...

    Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (July 14, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow Remote Code Execution if an attacker first places a specially crafted dynamic link library (DLL) file...
  14. Windows 7 System Protection max usage setting wont save

    When i change the 'max usage' setting in 'System Protection' to 5% from 50% then press 'Apply' and 'OK', and when i come back later i see that it has changed itself back to 50% again. Why wont it save the settings?
  15. Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2934088

    Today, we released Security Advisory 2934088 regarding an issue that impacts Internet Explorer 9 and 10. Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 11 are not affected. At this time, we are only aware of limited, targeted attacks against Internet Explorer 10. This issue allows remote code execution if users...
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    Windows 7 Blue Screen of death after SID Change, can't use system restore

    BSOD info: *** STOP: 0X000000F4 (0X000000000000003, 0XFFFFFA800ADB2B30, 0XFFFFFA800ADB2E10, 0XFFFFF8000318e7b0 When trying to use system restore, I get "you must enable system protection on this drive" however, when I try to do this from command prompt using a windows 7 cd...
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    Windows 7 Event 25, volsnap error

    Win 7, Home Premium, 64 Every time I reboot my machine I get a volsnap Event 25 error: "The shadow copies of volume C: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time. Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being...
  18. Windows 7 Having Crash Type Issue / Stuff Stopped Working / Help?

    I booted up and get the shown below window error messages. Restore points fail, When trying to get to the system protection I was getting Windows explorer stopped and is restarting. But it let up. I also get Windows media player has stopped working when trying to play a video. I run a RAID1...
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    Windows 7 Nasty Virus

    My wife just got a very nasty virus on her Windows 7 Home 64-bit system. She received an Email that said FedX had tried to deliver a package but was unable to complete the delivery. Instructions said to open a .zip file and print out a form and take the form to the nearest FedX office to get...
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    Windows 7 Including some commands in an unatttend file

    Hi Running the sysprep /generalize /oobe /reboot /unattend:c:\Unattend.xml command in Audit mode, how do I create an answer file that allows to: 1) include a partition in the system protection of Windows 7 SP1. 2) rename and put a password to the Administrator account. 3) permanently...