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Microsoft to discontinue support for Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000

  • Nandini Seth / 16 years
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Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows 2000 after July 13, 2010. Support for Windows Vista Release to Manufacturing (RTM) has already been discontinued since April 2010. Microsoft has also announced that users with unsupported version of Windows or Service Pack will not be eligible for […]

Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability

  • Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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The vulnerability for Microsoft Windows Help and Support Center is being exploited in the wild. More information for this vulnerability at https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2219475.mspx . The vulnerability allows for infecting a Windows system by visiting manipulated web sites, for example (drive-by-download). Microsoft now has released a “Fix It” tool which unregisters the HCP protocol as a workaround, […]

Microsoft Security Bulletin released for the month of June

  • Nandini Seth / 16 years
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Microsoft has released its security bulletin for June 2010. This month Microsoft has released 10 bulletins, addressing total 30 vulnerabilities. Out of the 10 bulletins three bulletins have been rated “Critical” and seven bulletins have been rated “Important”. Six bulletins are related to “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability, three bulletins are related to “Elevation of Privilege” […]

Connecting a newly purchased gadget to your PC can be un-safe.

  • Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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We are very much used to connect a new trendy gadget to our laptop to explore its features and configure etc. Many gadgets has memory card or storage in it to support lot of features like digital camera, music players video players, Mobile phones. All of these when connected to PC are showed as storage […]

Adobe releases security update for Adobe Photoshop CS4

  • Nandini Seth / 16 years
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Adobe has released an update for Adobe Photoshop CS4 to provide remedial measures for the vulnerabilities identified in Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 and its earlier versions. The vulnerabilities identified in Adobe Photoshop CS4, allows an attacker to take control of an affected system whenever a user opens a malicious file having extensions like ‘.ASL’, ‘.ABR’ […]

Beware of Trojan.Bredolab that sends fake iTunes Gift Certificate!

  • Sanjay Katkar / 16 years
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Yesterday I received a suspicious email with a attachment. The mail had subject line as: Thank you for buying iTunes Gift Certificate! I am a iPhone user and do have my account at Apple Store. Initially a thought came in my mind like whether somebody had hacked into my Apple Store account and done a […]

Prominent and efficient tools of Quick Heal Admin Console – Part 2

  • Nandini Seth / 16 years
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This blog is the second part of Prominent and efficient tools of Quick Heal Admin Console blog series. In this part, I will provide information about the inception and features of yet another prominent and efficient tool of Quick Heal Admin Console i.e. Quick Heal Admin Console Standalone Update Manager. Let me tell you how […]

Save our tigers website is compromised

  • Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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Yesterday while traveling to office I saw the hoarding of save tiger the on-going initiative undertaken by Aircel partnered with WWF-India to help “Save Our Tigers”. According to the latest Tiger census in India we have only 1411 left in wild. So I thought of joining this initiative by doing my bit so when i […]

DHL Delivery Mail lead to Rogueware

  • Ranjeet Menon / 16 years
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Below mail landed in my mailbox today with an attachment DHL_Tracking_NR.324-492383.zip, as curious user i went to check it ————————————————————————– Subject: DHL Tracking number #1488883 From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, May 24, 2010 10:09 am To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Good morning, We were not able to deliver postal package you sent on the 22nd May in time because […]

Vulnerability in 64-bit Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2

  • Yashowardhan Rai / 16 years
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Microsoft has warned users of vulnerability in 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. According to Microsoft’s Jerry Bryant they are investigating into a vulnerability in the Windows Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll) that enables applications to use graphics and formatted text on the video display and printer. The vulnerability is due to the driver’s […]