Archive for March 11th, 2010

Swiss security blog Abuse.ch has reported that the worst Zeus botnet hosting ISP was taken off line yesterday, cutting the botnet’s number of servers from 249 to 181 – including the six worse ones.Abuse.ch wrote: “As you can see in the chart abov... »

Hollywood celebrity Corey Haim has died in typical tabloid fashion: “under investigation.” And we all know that celebrity death equals Internet scams by the boatload.There are a number of spam runs currently circulating on video sharing sit... »

Well, it looks like rogues are going to be in style this season.Our good friends at McAfee AV have predicted that the 400 percent increase in rogues (also called “scareware”) they saw in 2009 will continue this year. The loss to victims will be on... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/10/adventures-in-backup-continued.aspx'; Two weeks ago I discussed some bad experiences I had with Hyper-V + backup.  Since then I have spent a bunch of time setting up Hyper-V + backup on a couple of systems – and none were as problematic as my first attempt.  I have also setup my home Hyper-V server to... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/10/the-big-re-build.aspx'; A while ago I talked about how I use Hyper-V in my house, and more recently I talked about trying to backup my Hyper-V server.  This discussion of backup was actually in preparation for a significant rebuild of my home Hyper-V server, that I undertook a week and a half ago.  There... »