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FakeSysdef-Diary of a scamware

December 2, 2010

Malware that has already passed through various iterations. Microsoft Malware Protection Center. Initially it was “System Defragmenter”, then “Scan Disk” and now it’s called “Check Disk”. While the name will most certainly change again, the main goal of Trojan:Win32/FakeSysdef will surely remain the same: to trick you into buying a piece of software that does [...]

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Windows 7 Family Pack Available in US

October 4, 2010

Starting today, customers in the United States can purchase the Windows 7 Family Pack at participating retailers and online at the Microsoft Store. This is your chance to get up to three PCs running Windows 7 Home Premium for the low price of $149.99 ERP. But act fast—Family Pack is only available while supplies last. [...]

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Worm:Win32/Visal.B

September 10, 2010

Microsoft Malware Protection Center Emerging Malware Issue: Visal.B The threat has a timestamp of 9/3/2010 and spreads using two techniques: mass emailing, and copying itself to local drives (C: and H:) and network shares. The threat will copy itself to various drives on the local system along with an autorun.inf file, and will also send [...]

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Windows 7 Family Pack returns in October

September 5, 2010

The return of the Family Pack is a good deal for consumers as it offers considerable savings over individual upgrades. Apparently it will only be available while supplies last so mark your calendars. Purchasing the Windows 7 Family Pack gives you three upgrade licenses of Windows 7 Home Premium for the low price of $149.99. [...]

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Alureon Botnet Evolves

August 28, 2010

Microsoft Malware Protection Center In terms of detections by operating system, Windows XP continues to be the most common target, chalking up over three quarters of the detections across all platforms. Windows Vista and Windows 7 are relatively unchanged from the May report. However, the authors of these attacks have not been resting. Just under [...]

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DLL preloading attacks

August 26, 2010

Microsoft Security Advisory (2269637) Insecure Library Loading Could Allow Remote Code Execution Published: August 23, 2010 Executive Summary Microsoft is aware that research has been published detailing a remote attack vector for a class of vulnerabilities that affects how applications load external libraries. This issue is caused by specific insecure programming practices that allow so-called [...]

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MSRT August

August 22, 2010

Microsoft Malware Protection Center This month’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release added new detection and cleaning for several malware threats that incorporate the use of the CVE-2010-2568 vulnerability (which was fixed by the MS10-046 security bulletin released in August). This includes the Win32/Stuxnet family and several variants of Win32/Vobfus and W32/Sality. From a global [...]

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Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance

August 18, 2010

Yahoo! Search Blog As we continue to work toward implementing the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance, we’re reaching some additional significant milestones that we want to share with you today. Later this week, we will begin transitioning the back-end technology for Yahoo! Search in the U.S. and Canada (English) over to the Microsoft platform, and [...]

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Support for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) ended July 13, 2010

July 14, 2010

If you have an unsupported version of Windows XP or Windows Vista without any service packs, Windows will continue to start and run as usual but you won’t get security updates for Windows. Support for Windows Vista without any service packs ended on April 13, 2010. To continue support, make sure you’ve installed Windows Vista [...]

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Internet Explorer 8, Understanding Group Policy Settings

July 14, 2010

The SpringBoard Series Blog This weeks post is from Carl Luberti, a Senior Support Escalation Engineer with the Internet Explorer team. To start, I wanted to address that Internet Explorer 8 has over 1300 Group Policy entries that can be configured, which is great for keeping your environment managed and safe. That can also create [...]

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