Archive for February 3rd, 2010

Our good friends at Broomfield, Colo., security firm eSoft have found an interesting scam to trick Internet users into installing the Hotbar adware: a fake Firefox download site.The eSoft researchers are theorizing that an affiliate of Pinball Publishe... »

Our researcher Adam Thomas found this little gem today. It’s distributed with other malware, cracks and drive-by downloads. It purports to be a security warning from your Windows operating system.Notice the “Visa, MasterCard, etc” &nd... »

Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 980088 to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer that may allow Information Disclosure for customers running on Windows XP or who have disabled Internet Explorer Protected Mode.  At this time we are not aware of any attacks seeking to use the vulnerability. ... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/02/02/windows-server-performance-team-increase-vmbus-buffer-sizes-to-increase-network-throughput-to-guest-vms.aspx'; The Windows Server Performance team have done a really interesting post on how to optimize network performance inside of virtual machines by increasing the size of the VMBus buffers used by our network adapters.  They also do a very good job of explaining the causes and implications of performance issues around virtual... »