Archive for September, 2010

Hello,   Below you will find the webcast we conducted earlier this week as part of the MS10-070 Security Update which was released Out-of-Band. We have also published the questions and answers from that webcast and linked them here.  The response for this webcast was amazing; however, due to time constraints, we were unable to answer... »

Hi everyone - Today we released out-of-band Security Update MS10-070 through the remainder of our standard distribution channels, including Windows Update and Windows Server Update Services. We have completed our testing of these channels and confirmed the update can be successfully downloaded. Customers are strongly encouraged to download the Security Update, test it in... »

Since Monday there has been a bit of a deluge of Linkedin scam mails that redirect the end-user to Zeus data theft malware. It’s worth pointing out that these emails are still doing the rounds: Click to Enlarge In addition to drive by exploits ... »

National Cyber Security Awareness Month -- held every October since 2004 -- is a “national public awareness campaign to encourage everyone to protect their computers and our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure,” according to the organizers ... »

Our rogue researcher Patrick Jordan was thinking of an upcoming vacation this afternoon and went looking for Caribbean recipes. Yep. You guessed it: the first site he went to tried to download a rogue called Live Security Suite that's been around si... »

Smart Security 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 a useless application.It’s a new rebranded clone of the FakeVimes family, replacing the MySecurity... »

GFI Sunbelt Software weekly video feature The GFI Sunbelt Software Malware Minute video is available for your viewing pleasure on the SunbeltSoftware YouTube channel (and below). Malware Minutes are short videos (1-2 minutes) that will provide a weekl... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/09/29/another-reason-to-use-dynamic-memory.aspx'; Have you started looking at dynamic memory in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1? If you have not – why?? I have been using dynamic memory on my home server infrastructure since January at the begining of this year, and have become completely addicted to it.  Recently I... »

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/09/28/creating-a-hyper-v-administrators-local-group-through-powershell.aspx'; After writing my script to allow a non-administrative user to control Hyper-V – I started thinking about how it would be nice if I could easily add and remove users from being Hyper-V administrators – without having to run a script each time.  Which lead to this: ... »

Today we found a Russian-language version of the PC Defender Antivirus rogue security product. It isn’t really new since it’s been in VIPRE detections. What is new in this version is that it is targeting Russian-speaking victims. In the past we’v... »