Rkill stops malware processes from running. It is useful because active malware processes running on your PC may not be detected by antivirus software. You can always go to the Task Manager in Windows to view active processes. If you cannot identify them, or they are blocked from the Task Manager list, you will find [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Spyware, Tutorials Basic, Windows

Microsoft Fix-It solutions are great, really. They are basically small programs that fix certain issues that users may experience under Windows. They were mostly run and forget kind of tools in the beginning, but have quickly expanded into different types. The Malware Prevention Fix-It belongs to that category. While it still comes with an option [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Microsoft has released two security bulletins on this month’s patch day. Every second Tuesday of a month is so called patch day at Microsoft where a number of security related updates are released. One of the security bulletin addresses securities in Microsoft Windows, the other in Microsoft Office. If you look at the maximum severity [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

If you follow this blog closely you may have noticed that several browser developers have pushed security updates in the past week (see Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Security Updates for instance) that block several invalid digital certificates to protect users from attacks exploiting those certificates. Microsoft is currently pushing out a Windows Update that addresses [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

True System Security Tweaker offers to change, enable or disable more than 450 security related settings in Windows. The portable application concentrates on user restrictions that are grouped into categories in the application interface. More than 20 categories are available of which some link to sub-categories. Among them security settings for Internet Explorer, the Windows [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Microsoft has just enabled downloads for today’s security patches on Windows Update. Today’s Patch Day brings 12 security bulletins that fix vulnerabilities of various severity affecting the Microsoft Windows operating system, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. Three of the vulnerabilities have a maximum severity rating of critical, the highest possible rating. The remaining 11 have [...]

Categories: Security, Windows

Laptop Securer, the name is a bit misleading as it can as easily be used on a desktop PC. The free software program can be used to change security related settings of Windows operating systems. The developers have designed it with mobile Windows PCs, such as laptops and netbooks, in mind as they usually pose [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A new 0-day vulnerability has been confirmed yesterday. The vulnerability affects all client and server versions of Microsoft Windows up to and including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Security Advisory 2501696 reveals that the “vulnerability exists due to the way MHTML interprets MIME-formatted requests for content blocks within a document” and that it [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, Security, Windows

Microsoft has released a free tool for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows that they have been using internally only for some time. The Attack Surface Analyzer assists “both testers and IT Pros in assessing the security of an application”. It does so by highlighting “the changes in system state, runtime parameters and securable objects [...]

Categories: Software, Windows