Archive for May 27th, 2010

Our documentation team has done a great job of putting together a detailed Windows Server 2008 R2: Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster.  They were nice enough to give us on the development team some physical copies – but you can download the .PDF to create your own: The poster provides details on the inner workings of... »

Malware Alarm, Antivirus 2008 and VirusRemover 2008The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has brought indictments in the Northern District of Illinois against three men in connection with a rogue security software scam that bilked victi... »

I have a blogged about this before - but we maintain a list of all updates / hotfixes that have been released for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2.  We update this list regularly - and have just rolled out the latest updates.  You can review the list here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394763(WS.10).aspx You should make sure to check... »

Started from buyfakepassports.com re-directing to fakepassportsale.cc.Hmmm. Country domain “cc” = Cocos Islands.buyfakepassports.com whois registration date:Created: 2010-04-26Expires: 2011-04-26The sites are together in the same IPs with the FakeV... »

VentureBeat is quoting market research firm DFC Intelligence as predicting that video gaming will be a $70 billion industry by 2015. That includes console, portable, PC and online games.Games have vast appeal. A Harvard economist, Lawrence Katz, even t... »

Are browser web histories the vulnerability of the week?The Register is reporting that police in Japan have arrested a Tokyo man and a juvenile on fraud charges in connection with an extortion operation in which they bilked victims out of “tens of t... »

Windows Virtual PC only officially supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 as guest operating systems.  Thankfully it has great compatibility and can run many operating systems that are not officially supported. I recently needed to setup a Windows 98 virtual machine for my wife – who has some genealogy software that will not... »