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557 days ago
Does the Government have a backdoor into your computer? Recently, an article on PC World about thwarting botnets,made a curious statement: "The software vendor is giving law enforcers access to a special tool that keeps tabs on botnets, using data compiled from the 450 million computer users who have installed the Malicious Software Removal tool that ships with Windows." The article went on to state: "Microsoft security experts analyze samples of malicious code to capture a snapshot of what is happening on the botnet network, which can then be used by law enforcers, Cranton said. "They can actually get into the software code and say, 'Here's information on how it's being controlled.'" While doing some research on this, I ran across this Article that raises some interesting questions: First in my mind is the question of whether the DETAILS of the reporting mechanism built into Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool are reported accurately ...
566 days ago
IF you are planning on installing Windows Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, DON'T! Once again, Microsoft has released an upgrade/service pack without testing appropriately and causing end users all kinds of frustration and issues, making some PC's unusable and unable to boot. Here is some reading for those interested: Continuous Reboots Plague Windows XP SP3 Users Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc Problems with XP SP3 and your AMD-based computer? Don't say I didn't warn you!
577 days ago
Recently, there has been a lot of traffic and discussion regarding massive attacks against Microsoft IIS powered websites, the United Nations and the British Government being affected, along with thousands of other sites. The attack takes advantage of Microsoft’s IIS servers ability to allow generic commands that don’t require specific table-level arguments. The vulnerability is the result of poor coding and input handling by the the creators of the sites, not a specific Microsoft flaw. To read More: Go HERE and HERE
583 days ago
Want to remotely shutdown your computer in a somewhat interesting and novel way? Tim Matheson over at The Tim Matheson Blog Shows us a nice way to do it via EMAIL. Try it!
