by wwarren | Apr 19, 2026 | Security, Security Alerts, Windows
Windows Defender has on ongoing history of system level compromises. Defender has been and continues to be leveraged to take over Windows. Microsoft continues to make bad decisions and poor code security practices leading to their security system being the very door...
by wwarren | Aug 22, 2021 | Microsoft, Windows, Windows 10, Windows365
Microsoft is one of the biggest. software companies…this is widely known. What is not widely known is there are parts that are vulnerable by design. The recent print nightmare vulnerabilities have one of them that could be easily triggered with little or no...
by wwarren | Jan 2, 2021 | Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, General, Hardware, Open Source, Storage, Windows, Windows 10
I had 1909 on my machine and it decided to upgrade to 20h2(mainly because i forgot to disable feature updates after some windows maintenance). Things immediately went downhill from there. I knew something was funky when it kept saying my E drive(my iscsi gamecache)...
by wwarren | Dec 30, 2018 | Annoucements, Microsoft, Uncategorized, Windows, Windows365
I was interviewed for an article on the state of Windows 10. Windows 10/Server 2016 REALLY needs to have the QA team brought back. Microsoft is seriously affecting the security of their products. I am not the only one holding off on multiple versions(not several as...
by wwarren | Apr 2, 2018 | Dell, Hardware, Microsoft, Ransomware, Research Projects, Security, Windows
I have not been at my computer as much and I missed the fact that March 31st was world backup day. This article on extremetech details some of the author’s backup plans. I wanted to have ransomware resistant backups at all levels so my system is a bit more...
by wwarren | Oct 6, 2017 | Microsoft, Office, Security, Windows
I have been thinking for a bit that Microsoft not only wanted Windows 7 to die quickly but Windows 8.x as well. Windows 7 because it is, admittedly old, and Windows 8.x because it is yet another Vista disaster. Windows 8.x however is technically supported until...
