Microsoft releases security bulletins once a month that outline new security updates and patches for Microsoft products. The security updates for April 2009 list a total of eight vulnerabilities for various Microsoft applications including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Six of the eight patches affect various Microsoft operating systems. Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 [...]
Conficker Worm Detection And Removal
By now you might have heard about the latest worm that is plaguing Internet users world wide. It goes by the name of Conficker (or Downadup)and comes in the variants A,B and C with c being the most evolved variant. To put it simple: Conficker uses a Windows vulnerability that was discovered in September 2008 [...]
Windows Process Blocker SPKiller
We reviewed a Windows process blocker just a few days ago which could be used to automatically kill processes after they are executed on the computer system. The main problem of the application were the notification popups that appeared in the Windows System Tray whenever a process or application got blocked. A hard to tame [...]
Windows Process Blocker
The Windows application Process Blocker has been designed to provide system administrators and computer technicians with a security tool that can be easily distributed on a computer network to prevent unauthorized program starts. The program is currently in beta stage and has not completed the goal yet but it comes with a functional feature set [...]
Microsoft Patch Day March 2009
Just a few minutes ago the patches for this month’s patch day have been uploaded to Windows Update and Microsoft Update. Users are encouraged to update their Microsoft operating system as soon as possible to close the recently discovered security vulnerabilities. Among the affected operating systems are practically all Microsoft operating systems since and including [...]
Network Security Software Bothunter
Bot networks are still a huge threat on the Internet. They are usually established with the use of computer worms that exploit old and new security vulnerabilities. A network security software like Bothunter can be helpful in determining if a computer network has been compromised. It does so by analysing the communication in the local [...]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday December 08
Microsoft released another batch of patches using their regular schedule. A total of eight security bulletins have been published that contain descriptions of security vulnerabilities of which six have been classified as critical and two as important.
The easiest way to install the patches is by downloading and installing the security patches at Windows Update which [...]
