by wwarren | Apr 11, 2010 | Microsoft, Open Source, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Microsoft has put out a winner this time. I have been running Windows 7 since the first beta. It runs perfectly on my old 1.6 ghz celeron notebook with 2 gigs of ram. Vista on the same machine was a horrid experience(yes Vista is that bad). The conventional wisdom...
by wwarren | Feb 24, 2010 | Microsoft, Office, Open Source, Security, Windows
The blame here is not online banking but the operating system(Windows) faulty design and the users lack of proper security education. ANY business no matter how small needs to have a security audit done: 1. To make sure your machines aren’t infected 2. To get...
by wwarren | Feb 18, 2010 | Microsoft, Open Source
It’s very simple. Yahoo is abandoning their search. All of their search results are going to come from Bing. How bad is Bing? I can search Microsoft’s site with Google faster, with more accuracy, and more relevance than Bing can hope for.
by wwarren | Jan 19, 2010 | Microsoft, Security, Security Alerts, Windows
Full Disclosure: Microsoft Windows NT #GP Trap Handler Allows Users to Switch Kernel Stack. If you honestly believed Vista or 7 was a total rewrite because Microsoft said so this issue blows that straight out of the water. This is code from back in the nt.x days. ...
by wwarren | Jan 19, 2010 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Computer Security Research – McAfee Labs Blog. This is an expansion of the most recent IE exploit. Now comes the analysis. Allowing a system level file for windows(in this case a dll) be executable without any kind of security context is a really bad idea. ...
by wwarren | Jan 15, 2010 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Security, Security Alerts, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
This was an exploit form back in ie6. It is present in all version up to 8. mshtml.dll once again has a major issue that allows remote sites to take over your machine. If you are running ie6, ie7, or ie8 you are vulnerable. HOWEVER if you have DEP turned on for ie...
