Archive for April 28th, 2010

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/04/28/hyper-v-best-practice-analyzer-now-available.aspx'; Yesterday we released an update for Windows Server 2008 R2 which provides a “best practice analyzer” for Hyper-V.  You can read about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977238 and download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=89d80c15-0082-4fef-a4fc-fefa463bed08.  But what is it?  How do you use it?  And why should you care? The Hyper-V Best Practice Analyzer is a tool... »

When “doc” stands for “don’t open contents”Brian Ross, one of our Sunbelt malware removal specialists found this little gem – a malicious file that arrives as an attachment in spam and takes advantage of the newly-discovered launch vulnerab... »

Fixes WMS on Win2K serverMicrosoft has reissued Security Bulletin MS10-025 – the one it pulled last week.MS10-025 was aimed at fixing a vulnerability in Windows Media Services running on Windows 2000 Server that could allow remote code execution if a... »

The Honeynet Project blog is carrying an article about a new botnet that appears to be a revival of the Storm Worm network that died out in 2007 -- once one of the biggest on the Internet.They said Steven Adair from Shadowserver found that the new bot... »