Archive for December 1st, 2009

The gang that distributes the PCScout rogue security product (see description in Sunbelt Rogue Blog here. ) has set up a fake abuse reporting site apparently to collect email address. Patrick made the connection.Entering information results in an erro... »

FreeBSD has issued a patch that may or may not be the final fix for a vulnerability that allows someone with local access on a network to run binary code with the help of the FreeBSD run-time link editor and gain root access.Intruders could possibly us... »

Researchers with the Honeynet Project have created a graphic user interface (GUI) that plots a wide variety of data and give a visual representation that can make it easier to detect attacks.The new GUI is part of the open-source Picviz tool. The ... »

REAntivirus is the latest phony security software in the WiniGuard family of rogues. REAntivirus, like other rogue antivirus software, it tricks people into believing it's a legitimate security suite then rips them off.Above is an example of fake aler... »

Additional Guard is phony security software, made to trick people into thinking it's a part of the Microsoft Windows Security Center. Additional Guard uses false security warnings and alerts to frighten people into buying a license of the software. A... »

We’ve received questions about public reports that customers might be experiencing system issues with the November Security Updates (which some are referring to “Black Screen” issues). We’ve investigated these reports and found that our November Security Updates are not making changes to the system that these reports say are responsible for these issues. While... »

PeopleofWalmart.com has become very popular in the past few months - but you may want to reconsider heading over there to gawk at the crazy people who frequent the superstore on a regular basis...Just today bungalowbillscw.blogspot.com reports that Pe... »

Under Hyper-V we have two kinds of disk controller that you can add to a virtual machine – IDE disks and SCSI disks.  A rough list of the differences between these controllers is as follows: IDE: Works on operating systems without integration services installed / available ... »

Tore Lervik has released an updated version of his fantastic Hyper-V Monitor Gadget.  New features in this release include: Neat little CPU graph for running virtual machines Option to use Remote Desktop to connect to running virtual machines Support for turning on / shutting... »