Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Love or hate its nagging prompts, Vista's Account Control feature (UAC) has a security feature that marks it out from any other type of Windows security programme -- it can spot rootkits before they install.
This is one finding buried in a report published in two German computer ...
Posted in Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Windows | 1 Comment
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Sometimes I wonder to myself have I mentioned a certain tool on the site, usually one of my favourites…often I search the site to find I have never posted about it.
It just goes to show how we often overlook some of the more ‘obvious’ choices, and to many people they ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Microsoft have just published an article on the 5 most misunderstood features in Windows Vista from IT Professional's & Developer's point of view, these include:
User Account Control (UAC)
Image Management
Display Driver Model
Windows Search
64-bit version
Head over to the Microsoft Download Center to grab the document.
Source: Nicholas Rayner
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little more than half of rootkits.
AV-Test.org, an indie security test organization based in Germany, ran two rootkit tests last month, one on ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Microsoft plans to release Office 2007 Service Pack 1 via the company's automatic update service starting June 16.The advanced announcement is a result of the software maker's promise to give at least a 30-day notice before making Office service packs available through Microsoft Update, which is a part of Windows ...
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