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    Windows 8 facial-recognition login API spotted [Updated]

    Microsoft’s next-gen OS, Windows 8 , will be user-aware according to the latest APIs discovered, suggesting the platform could well be able to track and identify users when they sit at their PCs. Windows8Italia spotted the “Detect human presence” API in among their M1 copy of Windows 8...
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    • Forum: Live RSS Feeds
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    MS11-031 - Critical: Vulnerability in JScript and VBScript Scripting Engines Could Allow Remote Code

    Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.0 (April 12, 2011): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the JScript and VBScript scripting engines. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user visited a specially crafted...
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    • Forum: Security Alerts
  3. cybercore

    Internet Explorer 9 Doubles Web Privacy Control

    Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) supports two separate technologies for restricting access to information related to a user's online activity. One of the privacy features was recently prompted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Both technologies involve the way...
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    Windows 7 New Facebook Exploit Hits The Web

    Source: Neowin.net - Exclusive: New Facebook exploit hits the web Update: If your account has been hijacked, take the following steps: 1) Visit the Facebook "Upload via Email" page 2) Click "Send me my upload email" 3) Click the "refresh your upload email" link. This will reset your...
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    • Forum: Windows Security
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    Windows 7 Scammers Can Hide Fake URLs on the iPhone

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    • Forum: Windows Security
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    Windows 7 Beware of Moscow Metro Bombing-Related Searches

    Link Removed - Invalid URL On the morning of March 29, 2010, minutes before 8:00 a.m. local time, an explosion occurred at the Lubyanka station of the Moscow Metro. Around forty minutes later, a second blast occurred at the Park Kultury station. So far, there have been 37 confirmed deaths...
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    • Forum: Windows Security
  7. whoosh

    Windows 7 Privacy Center Rogue Antivirus Copies Microsoft Privacy Portal

    Link Removed - Invalid URL Authors of rogue antivirus software hesitate little when it comes down to copying the design and branding of official security solutions in an attempt to pass their fake antivirus code as genuine offerings. It is, of course, just one of the aspects of the social...
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    • Forum: Windows Security
  8. whoosh

    Microsoft downplays Windows BitLocker attack threat

    Link Removed Computerworld - Microsoft dismissed recently-disclosed threats to its BitLocker disk-encryption technology as "relatively low risk," noting that attackers must not only have physical access to a targeted PC, but must manipulate the machine two separate times. The company's move...
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    • Forum: Windows News
  9. whoosh

    Fake Microsoft update emails circulating

    Fake Microsoft update emails circulating Don't be fooled: Microsoft isn't going to offer you "an experimental private version" of a Windows update, whatever the email says. Security vendor Sophos has Link Removed of a spammed malware campaign masquerading as a security update for various...
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    • Forum: Windows News
  10. kemical

    Windows 7 World of Warcraft users get another worry

    World of Warcraft users get another worry Sexy girls are not always what they seem By Link Removed - Invalid URL Friday, 27 November 2009, 12:15 INSECURITY FIRM Sophos is warning World of Warcraft users to be on the look out for sexy strangers bearing dangerous gifts. According to the...
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    • Forum: Windows Software
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    Windows 7 Installing Software on Dual Boot systems

    I haven't seen this posted anyplace. I just updated my Nvidia Driver and noticed on file path it selects C drive by default but my Windows 7 is on the M drive. I have noticed this on a couple of other things I installed. So pay attention where things install instead of just clicking OK...
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  12. reghakr

    Windows 7 Microsoft's Anti-Virus

    This is from a magazine called PC Utilities. It states Microsoft is announcing plans to replace it's subscription-based Windows Live OneCare anti-virus service.. It will offer protection against viruses, spyware, Trojans and rootkits.. It will not include the extra features such as printer...
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    • Forum: Windows News
  13. Matt

    New Trojan horse for the mac

    http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/new_trojan_leverages_unpatched.html?nav=rss_blog I think this just proves that Macs aren't any safer than Windows... Probably the same for Windows. This command post by robert sums it up nicely:
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    • Forum: General Computing
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