1. News

    Making Windows 10 More Personal and More Secure with Windows Hello

    When we started building Windows 10, the team spent a lot of time and energy thinking about how to make computing more personal. We want your devices to recognize you, to understand what you’re saying… we want the experience to go wherever you do and we want you to feel a great sense of TRUST as...
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    An update is available that enables administrators to update trusted and disallowed CTLs in...

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    TA14-017A: UDP-based Amplification Attacks

    Original release date: January 17, 2014 | Last revised: March 07, 2014 Systems Affected Certain UDP protocols have been identified as potential attack vectors: DNS NTP SNMPv2 NetBIOS SSDP CharGEN QOTD BitTorrent Kad Quake Network Protocol Steam Protocol Overview A Distributed Reflective...
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    Security Advisory 2982792 released, Certificate Trust List updated

    Today, we are updating the Certificate Trust List (CTL) for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows to remove the trust of mis-issued third-party digital certificates. These certificates could be used to spoof content and perform phishing or man-in-the-middle attacks against web properties...
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    Kerberos Forest Search Order may not work in an external trust and event ID 17 is returned

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    Windows XP is this illegal???

    i have "windows trust" installed on my laptop wish is a modified and not legal version of windows XP... now i want to stop using windows illegaly so i want to download ubuntu and install it... but is it illegal to do that using windows?? i mean downloading and burning ubuntu to a dvd doing all...
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    Windows 7 Place to download untouched specific iso from

    hi 1, is digitalriver.com same company as digitalrivercontent.net ? 2, second web doest not offer these isos i strongly need: 3, is there any trusted and official microsoft reseller, where may i find those isos ? thanks for help (important)
  8. News

    The Next Leap Forward in Cyber Defense: Taking Action to Help Defeat Adversaries

    It is often said that attackers have an advantage, because the defenders have to protect every part of their systems all the time, while the attacker only has to find one way in. This argument oversimplifies the security landscape and the real strength that defenders can achieve if they work...
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    Windows 7 java, javascript, windows media player, .....

    HI there, I have no idea what programs I need, which are the same, help--- I have- adobe flash player 12, activex, plugin, adobe shockwave 11.6, HPmedia smart, quick time, realtek hi def audio driver, vio player version 1.o.1 HELP I have no idea what these programs are for and if I...
  10. davehc

    Moderators and others

    This is by no means a criticism of the existing moderators! The term "Moderator" has, over the years, come to mean someone who can give sound advice. Historically, it can be a misuse of the English language? On another, very old and established forum I frequent, they have two classes...
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    Certificate validation fails when a certificate has multiple trusted certification paths to...

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    Windows 7 Software for monitoring children

    So I'm no parent or anything and I can't give details but we got a foster child in the house now who has to be closely monitored using the computer. As most of us know you don't want to sit there and monitor your child while they use the computer, you got better things to do, right? Well for me...
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    Windows 7 Security from over seas companies?

    What do you think will happen to software companies that are based over seas, if and when the stuff hits the fan? Who will be running them? Can we trust them after the musical chairs stop? Should we be thinking about switching to all american software soon? Im starting to think about it more...
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    Microsoft releases Security Advisory 2641690, updates Untrusted Certificate Store

    Hi everyone, As a follow-up to Friday’s blog post, today we released Security Advisory 2641690 to notify customers that we revoked the trust of DigiCert Sdn.Bhd in an update that moves two Intermediate Certificate Authorities (CA) certificates to the Microsoft Untrusted Certificate Store...
  16. Digerati

    Site Introduced Ads in Members Posts - NOT COOL!

    I am very unhappy with the site's policies to introduce ads into members posts without their knowledge or permission. I think it is very deceptive, disappointing and uncalled for. I am referring to ads that appear when users submit posts they typed using key words like, r e g i s t r y, c r a...
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    Untrusted Certificate Store to be updated

    Hi everyone, This post is to notify customers that Microsoft will revoke trust in an Intermediate Certificate Authority, DigiCert Sdn. Bhd. (Digicert Malaysia) in an update to be released through Windows Update. DigiCert Sdn. Bhd is a Malaysian subordinate CA under Entrust and Verizon (GTE...
  18. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 7 Transitioning from AVG to Microsoft Security Essentials: My Experience and Thoughts

    Hi Yesterday I uninstalled AVG. I've used it for years and not having it makes me a little nervous but I decided to go it alone with MSE. I think that I see some performance increases. Maybe I'm imagining that. I've been running both of them since MSE came out with no problems because I just...
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    Microsoft updates Security Advisory 2607712

    Today we’re updating Link Removed due to 404 Error, to announce that based on our investigation, we’ve deemed all DigiNotar certificates to be untrustworthy and have moved them to the Untrusted Certificate Store. Additionally, we have extended our support with this update so all...
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    Windows root certificate program members

    This article discusses the trusted CAs that can be used by Windows users for secure e-commerce. Provides a download link for a list of program members. More...