Archive for August, 2010

Hi everyone, Since we released Security Advisory 2269637 on August 23, we've continued to conduct an investigation not only into our own affected products, but also into how we can best help to protect customers given DLL preloading also affects some third-party applications. We'd like to provide an update on our investigation. First, I want to... »

When you use dynamic memory with Hyper-V one of the obvious changes to the user interface is the addition of the “Memory Availability” column: This is actually a really useful figure to have handy.  What memory available represents is the ratio of how much memory a virtual machine has – compared to how much memory... »

AV Defender 2011 is a rogue security product that pretends to find malicious code on a victim’s machine in order to frighten him or her into purchasing this useless application. It presents an alarming graphic user interface:(Click on graphic to enla... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/08/30/hyper-v-hotfix-rollup-now-available.aspx'; I am a bit late in getting this post up (due to being on the road at TechEd Australia & TechEd New Zealand); but last week we released a hotfix rollup package. This package includes the fixes for three of the five issues that I recently blogged about. ... »

Microsoft has posted an advisory that explains the "DLL preloading attacks" and offers a work-around tool that “allows customers to disable the loading of libraries from remote network or WebDAV shares. This tool can be configured to disallow insecur... »

Advanced Security Tool 2010 is a rogue security product that downloads itself and pretends to find malicious code on a victim’s machine in order to frighten him or her into purchasing this useless application. These malicious applications typically ... »

Dude! Chill! EVERYBODY wants to shoot them!A variety of news outlets are reporting an incident in Salt Lake City in which an employee of a mortgage company allegedly got drunk at a concert, returned to his office and put several .45 caliber bullets int... »

AntiSpy Safeguard is in the FakeRean family of rogue security products. VIPRE detects it as Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra. Like all rogues, it does a fake scan of your computer then tells you it has found malicious code.(click to enlarge graphic)It re... »

AntiSpy Safeguard is in the FakeRean family of rogue security products. VIPRE detects it as Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra. Like all rogues, it does a fake scan of your computer then tells you it has found malicious code.(click to enlarge graphic)It re... »

I’ve been seeing a lot of questions pop up in relation to a website involving a “free Pokemon MMORPG”.Click to EnlargeShall we take a look?The site in question is (of course) pokemon(dot)awesomefreegames(dot)net. You’re promised... »