Archive for March 18th, 2010

User Protection is a phony security program, designed to infect PC after PC and rip people off. If User Protection has infected your PC, you should remove it immediately.PC's infected with User Protection usually experience the following:Constant pop-... »

Or is it at the saturation point?The SANS Institute (acronym = SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) web site carried a blog piece that gives a good snapshot of the horrible ongoing plague of spam email that IT folks all over the globe must deal with. Th... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/18/windows-virtual-pc-no-hardware-virtualization-update-now-available-for-download.aspx'; The update to Windows Virtual PC to support running on systems without hardware virtualization is now available for download.  You can grab it here: For 32-bit host operating systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=837f12aa-1d37-464e-ae59-20c9ecbebaf6 For 64-bit host operating systems: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e70dd043-e262-43c0-a002-446567f1e2b4 You can also read the full KB article here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977206 One thing to note: While Microsoft supports the use of... »

We hear so much about stealth tactics, data theft and covert ops where malware is concerned these days that we often forget about the time when it was more about how many popup windows the attacker could throw onto the screen along with a couple of dan... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/18/dynamic-memory-coming-to-hyper-v.aspx'; We have just announced that in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 we will be adding a new feature to Microsoft called “Dynamic Memory”.  The goal of this feature is to allow for better utilization of memory by dynamically adding and removing memory from running virtual machines. I am really... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/18/windows-virtual-pc-now-without-the-need-for-hardware-virtualization.aspx'; Today we have made a slew of announcements around work we have been doing for desktop virtualization.  Once of which is that Windows Virtual PC will be updated to be able to run on systems without hardware virtualization support.  The update is not currently available – but should go live later today... »