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Beware Of The System Check Trojan

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Posted by okorioth on 25 Jan 12 - 2 Comments

Lately in the last couple of months I’ve seen this infection making the rounds, and it is a nasty one. The System Check virus/Trojan, part of the FakeHDD family of infections is a fake computer analysis and optimization program designed to look like your Windows system is failing and that you need to purchase their [...]

Reminder: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Support Has Ended

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Posted by okorioth on 19 Jul 11 - 0 Comments

Wait..you still run Windows Vista? Hopefully not Service Pack 1 still right? You should move to Windows 7 regardless..a much nicer experience. But for those of you who like to hang on to old stuff, Microsoft recently announced that Service Pack 1 support has ended.  So you better upgrade via Windows Update or download  to [...]

Whoops! Windows XP Update Causes BSOD, Here’s A Fix

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Posted by okorioth on 16 Feb 10 - 0 Comments

MS10-015, Microsoft, KB977165, Rootkit.Win32.TDSS, Windows XP BSOD

Important Patch For Internet Explorer, Update Immediately!

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Posted by okorioth on 23 Jan 10 - 0 Comments

If you have not heard the news this month, theres a little spat going on between Google and China over hacking and such. Turns out one of the techniques used to hack Google and other companies was through a security exploit in all versions of Internet Explorer, known as the Aurora exploit. Microsoft has since [...]

Microsoft Releases Massive Batch of Security Updates For October

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Posted by okorioth on 13 Oct 09 - 0 Comments

Its the second Tuesday of the month, and that of course means in the Microsoft camp its patch Tuesday. And what a whopper this one is, in fact its the largest amount of patches ever released at one time.  The range of patches pretty much covers almost every major product line, from Windows, Server, SQL, [...]

No More Internet Exploder 6

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Posted by okorioth on 11 Aug 09 - 0 Comments

I have decided enough is enough and am joining the Internet campaign to eradicate the existence of Internet Explorer 6. Its old, full of security holes and frankly just does not play nice with Internet standards. If you are browsing this site with this version you will have no doubt noticed the huge warning banner [...]

Countdown to Conficker

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Posted by okorioth on 27 Mar 09 - 1 Comment

Hopefully, many of you know already about the Conficker worm which has been in the news as of late. There are many millions of infected machines out there today, and the clock is ticking on an April 1st deadline. What happens on April 1st 2009 is anybodys guess, but it more than likely won’t be [...]

Unprecedented response to major DNS flaw

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Posted by okorioth on 09 Jul 08 - 0 Comments

Wow, this is simply unheard of.  Yesterday it was publicly revealed that a major design flaw in the DNS protocol was simultaneously patched by vendors across the entire spectrum of the computer and technology world. The fact that they were able to keep this a secret for six months while they worked to plug the [...]

Microsoft Security Updates for March

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Posted by okorioth on 11 Mar 08 - 0 Comments

Its getting to be that time of the month again, and as usual there are a whole bunch of updates coming out for March. As posted on CERT, MS will have patches for a whole range of products including ones for Office which will patch some serious holes, ones that will plug a remote code [...]