Archive for March 23rd, 2010

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/22/windows-virtual-pc-everywhere-part-2.aspx'; Continuing in my theme of running Windows Virtual PC everywhere – I think it is time to provide an update on my Virtual PC on Hyper-V post from just over 2 years ago.  So here is the updated Windows XP Mode on Windows Virtual PC on Windows 7 on Hyper-V on Windows... »

Writing about the Neopets phish yesterday made me wonder if there are other scams out there targeting Neopets users (it wouldn’t be the first time). Sure enough, a quick scout around sites such as Youtube and…Oh dear. A number of files are... »

Mozilla Foundation has released version 3.6.2 of its Firefox browser a week early. The group had said the update would be available March 30. The update fixes a widely reported vulnerability (CVE-2010-1028) that prompted Germany’s CERT to advise ... »

Our analyst Eric Kumar found this interesting and malicious little mechanism.The hosts file on a machine under investigation was modified to redirect the victim’s browser to a well known legitimate site (in this case google.com) whenever he attempted... »

Not so long ago, examples of fake Firefox websites / downloads were in the news with the sites involved serving Hotbar installs. It seems the tactic of offering up Firefox (but giving you something else entirely) is going to be around for a little whi... »