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, shell fragment necklace, leather wrist bands...
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08-06-2006
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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't like IE and is blocking access to IE users. That...
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06-23-2006
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It has, at times, been a real uphill battle trying to convince the 'man on the street' to take advantage of the Phishing Filter that is an integral part of Internet Explorer 7, and available as an add-in for the MSN Toolbar. Let's have a look at how the Phishing Filter works and see if we can relieve...
Note, HP and Kerio are NOT the only software affected by the problems described in the KB article 918165. Older NVIDIA software is also implicated, and as the KB article states, there may be other third party COM controls or shell extensions causing a problem. In short, don't assume that just because...
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04-14-2006
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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 against the createTextRange vulnerability. http...
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03-29-2006
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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 about whether the March build (that is, 5335...
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03-25-2006
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