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My latest column for the Windows Help and How-to Community is now live. "With more and more people using Internet banking and other online financial services, the number of con artists trying to separate us from our hard-earned savings has grown...
Microsoft's Phishing Filter is proving to be quite a success, thanks not only to all of the IE7 and MSN/Windows Live Toolbar users who are actively reporting phishing sites, but also thanks to data sharing between MS and third party data sources. Recently...
For your viewing pleasure.. an excellent video from TechEd Windows Vista System Integrity Technologies http://www.microsoft.com/emea/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=223 Steve Riley is a fun presenter... messy blonde hair, sneakers, red pants, blue shirt...
One of my loyal readers pointed me to this site, coincidentally after reading my blogpost about the Bit9 assessment which placed Firefox 1.0.7 as the most dangerous non-malicious software out there: http://www.cweiske.de/ It seems the owner/author doesn...
Stephen *** has posted to ie6.browser newsgroup regarding a known problem with MS06-15 / KB908531 wherein Internet Explorer may free when you attempt to use the drop-down list in the Address Bar. MS have tracked down the cause of the problem, and it is wide spread enough to be deserving of publicity....
Summary: My advice? Don't install it. (Please forgive any grammatical or logical flow errors - I'm running real short of time but wanted to get this live before starting my work day). Two MS security bloggers have mentioned the eEye "patch" that protects...
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=JS%5FDLOADER%2EBXR&VSect=P I do note on the diagram that it stipulates that only the "January edition" of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview is vulnerable. There has been a lot of confusion...
Important Update: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2006/03/15/86345.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This could prove to be a very serious problem. The Windows Genuine Advantage Validation...
Ok, so Firefox is going to introduce a "Phishing Shield": http://news.com.com/Firefox+to+get+phishing+shield/2100-1029_3-6047610.html?part=rss&tag=6047610&subj=news I'm trying *really* hard to behave myself, but I can't resist asking if the decision...